Dan Swift (Jesse Bean) has a perfect life: a successful career, the cozy suburban home and the lovely pregnant wife. When Dan loses a promotion to co-worker Bill (Christopher Atkins), tension mounts in the normally sedate office, and Dan's only refuge becomes Herb (John Doe), the coffee-shop owner. When Dan loses his baby, wife and job all in the same week, his perfect life takes a fast, downward spiral' Overwhelmed with stress and hallucinations, he blames work for his problems and targets his fellow workers for death.

It is late 1940's when the beautiful countess of Rudlov disappears. The legend blames the monster, the people blame the lagoon. Nearly 50 years later, the spirited Illona Rudlov, is a struggling ballerina living in New York. Ilona decides to go to Bohemia to reclaim her ancestor's castle.