The engineer Rosalie leads a life without standing still. She doesn't feel old for a long time, only mature. When Rosalie returns to Germany after a fainting spell at a solar project in Africa, it's just supposed to be a breather. When she shows up at her bourgeois sister Margret's with a huge container, she is not very enthusiastic about the surprise visit. The retired teacher sees right through that Rosalie isn't staying with her voluntarily. The well-travelled woman is broke! It seems like a miracle that there are a huge chunk of banknotes in a hole in the wall of the room. On the other side of the wall there is the room of the highly talented high school graduate Karla, who rents a part of Margret's house with her father Harald. After a failed first meeting, Rosalie befriends with the wheelchair-bound teenager and sets her mind on getting Karla out of her sheltered isolation, even against her will.
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them.
Prosecutor Charlotte Reinke investigates in a sensitive case: The eight-year-old Laura accuses her father novel of sexual abuse. This indignantly rejects the suspicion. The child had made the accusation under the influence of the mother, who only wanted to take revenge for having left her for another. Does Roman say the truth? Rather accidentally, the prosecutor makes a decisive discovery.
While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
16세기 루마니아, 아름다운 외모와 막강한 부로 권력의 중심에 있었던 백작부인 엘리자베스 바토리(줄리 델피). 다른 귀족들의 질투로 고립된 삶을 살던 어느 날, 그녀는 파티에서 만난 젊고 매력적인 귀족 청년 이스트반(다니엘 브륄)과 운명 같은 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그러나 그와의 사랑이 깊어질수록 그녀는 점점 늙고 추해지는 자신이 불안하기만 한데… 한편, 바토리의 숙적인 튜르조 백작(윌리엄 허트)의 계략으로 이스트반은 그녀를 떠나게 되고 그 사실을 모르는 채 그가 떠난 이유가 자신이 더 이상 아름답지 않기 때문이라 생각한 그녀는 깊은 절망에 빠진다. 우연히 하녀의 피로 자신의 얼굴이 더욱 젊어진 것을 느낀 바토리는 처녀의 피만이 자신의 젊음과 아름다움을 유지할 수 있는 유일한 방법으로 여기게 되고 본격적인 처녀 사냥을 시작하는데….
