Professor Nijinski, whose work with experimental skin grafts has been aborted by a lab fire that has left his wife Tania now hideously burned, her face a bloody mass of flayed flesh and tissue. Nijinski vows to continue his research, venturing into the village to kidnap and murder local young woman and remove their skin, transplanting it onto his tortured wife's ruined skull. - Demented professor tries to restore his bride's face.