Erzsébet Báthory, born into a wealthy yet cruel family of triumphant Transylvanian-blooded Hungarian aristocratic warriors, is favored by her royal cousins and situated amongst the nest members of society-a world juxtaposed against the horrors of warfare and the brutal torture of the estate's servants and peasantry. The violence shown by her father, Baron György VI Báthory and the seizing illness Erzsébet suffers from, drives her into the arms of her Romani lover, Andrei. She consequently gives birth to Anastasia whom is torn from Erzsébet's arms and sacrificed to the bábák Darvulia.