The film focuses on Nick Dread, a disgraced monk from Inquisition times who rebelled against the Church s hypocrisy by making a deal with the Devil; Nick wants his own kingdom in Hell, but first he must claim 100,000 souls. Fortunately, he has all of the lifetimes he needs at his disposal. So, when Nick is executed in modern-day New York, he comes back by possessing a bright-eyed young girl who has just arrived in the big city to make her dreams come true. Her dreams probably didn't include killing a dozen Goths in a Lower East Side nightclub, but that just makes her doing so all the more fun.