Forty years after his incarceration, the evil gravedigger is released by a lawyer due to Brazilian law. He moves to a slum with his favorite flowers and begins searching for a perfect woman to bear his child, despite the child being haunted by the ghosts of those he murdered. The local sheriff of public security and his brother, both from the military police, track him down in the slum to put an end to him. There, they discover numerous tortured and dismembered bodies.