Francisco Goya is in Cádiz recovering from a terrible illness that has left him deaf, with horrible fevers, headaches, and hallucinations. He is experiencing terrible visions, things from another world that beset him, intimations of death that will later become a reality in the blood-soaked fields of the War for Independence. Perhaps those monsters aren't real.. but his friend Asensio Julia is... and he forms part of that other world.