At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
Rome, 1912. D'étranges événements se produisent dans un musée de cire. Un jeune homme est retrouvé mort. Peu à peu, tous ceux qui s'approchent du musée et de l'inquiétant professeur Volkoff disparaissent.
Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.