Count Anatol Manesse-Manconi embodies icy elegance. His style is expensive and heartless. He is incapable of love and instead celebrates sex like a lonely dictator. He is the ruler of his wife Verena's lust. A woman of simple circumstances became the beautiful, shameless goddess of impulses. She is the object of desire, envy, and contempt to the Count's strange guests. Every guest in his house represents another mortal sin: arrogance, hate, gluttony, lust, lethargy, greed, and envy are all gathered together to enjoy one another in profound mutual antipathy--until a misfortune happens. By the Count's order, his secretary Clemens inaugurates the inspector into the dark secrets of the house. The young mechanic Toni was murdered. But by whom?