A woman is enamoured with a man whose family is rumoured to have a hereditary madness. Despite her brother’s urgings, she stands by her love as he struggles with his own monomania (an obsession with a single thing). There is a legend surrounding the mad man’s family involving burial of their dead, and a prophesy of the end of their lineage. It appears that this young man’s obsession is over the continuation of his family line… something he takes very seriously. But there are strange things he must do to belay the prophesy and ensure the family future.