The lonely Frankenstein travels to Chicago in the 1930s to ask the brilliant scientist Dr. Euphronius to create a companion for him. The two resuscitate a murdered young woman - "the bride" is born. But what unfolds next goes beyond all her expectations: murder! Obsession! An unleashed, radical cultural movement! And in the midst of this maelstrom an outlawed couple, entangled in a romance whose hot embers ignite and destroy at the same time.