 It is late 1940 s when the beautiful countess of Rudlov disappears. The legend blames the monster, the people blame the lagoon. Nearly 50 years later, the spirited Ilona Rudlov is a struggling ballerina living in New York and working in a strip club. When the Velvet Revolution occurs, she decides to go to Bohemia to reclaim her ancestor s castle. There she falls in love with a young hunter and experiences a mystical apparition of the creature. With the help of an old man (unaware that it is her grandfather,) Ilona escapes the creature s grasp. In the beautiful wilderness of the Bohemian mountains, Ilona is faced with the betrayal of love and the painful realization that the dreams of her youth have not come true.