在他的爱妻去世后，心里不平衡画家本认为自己是文森特·梵高的转世，于是他挖出她的尸体 - 与他的恋尸癖管家的帮助下 - 将其带回给他的城堡，并用它赋予“灵感”。很快他就遇到一位美丽的音乐家，她的长相相酷似他已故的妻子，他将她带回自己的城堡。然而，她最终发现了他们的秘密：管家杀害了这个年轻女子并用她的尸体的血液当作他们 “生命的色彩” - 艺术家的颜料

A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town´s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone´s high expectations and the opera singer´s triumphant return.