For Elektra, the four-thousand-year-old vampire of Stanley Markinson's Bloodlust novels, reverberations of love, passion, and death move among the shadows that connect the past, present, and the future. When Roland, a one-time porn director whose films now knock at the door of the big time, decides to make a movie based on the series, he takes his production team, which includes his wife Valerie, on a whirlwind tour of the world to capture the essence of the locations mentioned in the books. Their first stop: a remote Scottish castle and the village in the valley below to imitate the Scotland of the fourteenth century.Â

While scouting the location, Roland notices Valerie becoming distracted, remote. He knows Markinson, who is accompanying the team, unsettles her with his hauntingly quiet movements and his avoidance of using contractions in his speech. Is that all that is bothering her? Even he cannot shake the feeling that something is brewing beneath the surface, something that, at times, makes it seem as though she is a different person.