 Mikos Stenopolis is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him a healing factor but inadvertently drove him insane.The Vatican priest who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings which disembowel him, but he is revived later in a local hospital.The madman escapes after brutally murdering a nurse, and goes on a killing spree.