An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Randolph Bradley, hiçbir koşulda öne çıkmak istemeyen, hayatını dikkat çekmeden yaşamaya çalışan genç bir adamdır. Ancak iş arkadaşı Benson, aniden çıldırıp cinayet işlemeye başladığında, Randolph hayatta kalmanın bir yolunu bulmak için kendi karanlık geçmişiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalır.
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?