 Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading to the resurrection of a dead body. The baron s obsession and the monster s homicidal nature cause the deaths of several of those around them. Finally the Baron is confronted by an enraged monster about to throw Victor s fiancée Elizabeth, from the castle parapet.