A young woman contracts what she believes to be an STD—but it ends up being a far worse disease.

Edmund Kemper, cannibal and necrophiliac, mercilessly murdered his grandparents at the age of 15. Rejected by his parents and hating his mother, he killed eight more victims a few years later in a fit of madness. After rape, his supreme pleasure was to dissect and decapitate the corpses he ate...

In his study a cardinal is surrounded by bizarre props in an atmosphere of decay.