故事发生在1921年的埃及,一支探险队在法老的坟墓里发现了因霍特(波利斯·卡洛夫 Boris Karloff 饰)的木乃伊。因霍特曾经是一名王子,因为受到了法老的诅咒而遭遇了活活陪葬的悲惨命运。在墓穴中同时被发现的,还有一份神秘的卷轴,在传说中,这卷轴能够赋予死人新的生命。探险队中的一名成员在阴差阳错之下念出了卷轴上的咒语,之后发狂而死,因霍特因此俘获。
一晃眼十年过去,在这十年间,因霍特一直都隐藏着自己的身份,作为一名普通的埃及青年生活着。实际上,他一直在寻找一个名叫海伦(齐塔·约翰 Zita Johann 饰)的姑娘,这个姑娘的前世正是因霍特曾经的恋人。
In Italy, old, dirty, congested prisons full of violence and abuse are a dim and distant memory. Now prisoners serve their sentences in a state of deep sleep which renders them inoffensive and has drastically reduced reoffending rates. Hypersleep is an efficient, economically viable and reliable system. That is, until the day when David Damiani (Stefano Accorsi), a psychologist charged with monitoring prisoners’ mental states, finds himself faced with a prisoner about whom all information has been lost. It’s an unexpected event which triggers a chain of unforeseeable event, forcing David to face up to the ghosts of his very own past.