15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan.

As the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret.

The action begins in black and white, as in a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attack on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots his children and then shoots at his pregnant ...