Jos Bakker, a Dutch painter living in Berlin, is on a cross road in his life. He needs to make a decision, either hold on to his freedom and his unattached way of life or settle down and cre- ate a family with the woman he loves.

A church group becomes stranded at an old house where an assailant begins picking them off one by one, in a fictional variation of John Foxe's classic book detailing Christian martyrdom through the ages.