西柏林，一家新落成的电影院正在派发电影票，招揽观众。影院首映的是一部名为《魔鬼》的恐怖影片。年轻女孩绮丽儿（Natasha Hovey 纳塔莎•霍维 饰）对影片颇感兴趣，她邀请好友凯茜（Paola Cozzo 饰）一同逃课前往电影院。
途中她们遇到另一伙年轻人，其中一个女人将影片宣传用的面具戴在脸上，却不慎割伤了皮肤。这个不慎的闪失导致了无可挽回的大灾难，该女子变成全身发绿的恐怖恶魔，凡是被她抓伤或咬到的也会产生同样的变化。人们四散逃命，恐怖迅速蔓延。绮丽儿她们该如何逃出生天呢？

After a nuclear holocaust, as the rest of society regresses to primitivism, a small, "elite" group that has managed to escape radioactive contamination takes it upon itself to exterminate those it sees as "unfit", including certain members of its own group.

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.