Cecily Harrington's fiance is traveling in the Sudan when she wins a big prize in a sweepstake and decides to postpone the wedding to spend a portion of the money on a European trip. During her travels she meets Bruce Lovell who sweeps the romance-craving Cecily off her feet marries her and takes her to his out-of-the-way cottage in the country. However Lovell is not the charming gentleman he appears to be. Instead he is a homicidal maniac of the most eerie repulsive type and is resolve