A terrifying encounter with a steel-armed maniac by a young family leaves both parents brutally slaughtered, and their young daughter alive but traumatized.When she grows up she becomes a dressmaker, eventually finding work in a sinister wax museum devoted to recreations of horrific crime scenes. When a young reporter starts snooping around the workshop, she discovers that things are not what they seem, and soon the journalist and the dressmaker are faced with their own new terrors.