The story follows a theatre troupe who arrives in a city to perform Frankenstein, where they meet a young female reporter, who is investigating the legend and who believes that the novel is not fiction, but rather the true story of a group of intellectuals and alchemists founded by the young doctor Victor Frankenstein, who managed in 1817 to defeat mortality and return from the dead. Interviewing the theatre troupe members, the reporter is confronted with the dark heroes of the novel.