Greece, 1910. Maria is a young Greek girl in a fishing village on the Black Sea. The village match maker betroths her to a young fisherman Adonis, who is in partnership with the true object of Maria's affection, Giorgos. One stormy night Giorgos and Adonis's boat capsizes and Adonis is lost at sea. With no source of income Giorgos sets of for America promising Maria he will return for her. She does not believe him. But instead, Adonis comes back from the dead - a Vrykolakas - a Greek revenant sea vampire. The creature claims he is not Adonis but a stranger...