这本该是一个平静美好的早晨，乔治（乌尔里希·穆埃 Ulrich Mühe 饰）和妻子安（苏珊娜·罗莎 Susanne Lothar 饰）带着儿子来到位于湖边的小屋度假，乔治和儿子前往湖边整理之后要使用的帆船，而安则在厨房里安置生活用品。一声尖锐的门铃划破的所有的平静，来者是一名看上去彬彬有礼的年轻人，他自称皮特（弗兰克·捷林 Frank Giering 饰），此行前来打扰是为了借一枚鸡蛋。皮特端正的外表取得了安的信任，但随后发生的事情却让安大跌眼镜。这时，一名叫保罗（亚诺·弗里斯奇 Arno Frisch 饰），外貌酷似皮特的男子敲响了安的房门，同时，乔治带着儿子也回家来了。
　　演员都到齐了，一家三口怎么也无法想到的是，等待着他们的，将是来自这两个白衣恶魔的，毫无动机，毫无怜悯，毫无理智的凌虐。

　　This is a very bizarre fairy tale. It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves. The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.
　　Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus folk come by and the villagers trick them into staying. Tragedy ensues...
　　This has a strange cast, dwarfs, giants, priests and occasional intrusions from the modern world in the form of the police and a wonderer who returns bringing to the village the good news of Nostradamus. It is a long film but it honestly does not drag. and if you get bored of the plot you can always look at the sumptuous Countryside.