Romance is deadโฆ
Beautiful but impoverished Lina Dahlstrom is dying of tuberculosis and it seems that no one can save her. All hope is lost until an eccentric doctor, Carl Dance, becomes enthralled with Linaโs charms and vows to do everything in his power to cure her. But when the illness inevitably claims Linaโs life, Danceโs obsession with her only grows and so begins a mad and criminal scheme to bring her back from beyond the grave and claim her as his own forever.