Artemisia's husband is tortured to death for calling Vespe, Count Bal's mistress, "the second lady". To avenge him, Artemisia endures having her bones and skin remade to take on Cecilia's face, the woman the Count loved and lost.
As Misia, she arrives at Kalo Castle with her daughter Anise, using his lost love's face to reignite Bal's obsession. But her arrival enrages Vespe.
Misia turns Bal's obsession and Vespe's jealousy into weapons, setting trap after trap to make her enemies pay in blood.
