His fiancee Zoe, medical researcher Frank and his team have achieved the impossible: they will have found a solution to regenerate the dead person. After a successful, however unsanctioned, experiment on a dead creature, they are ready to make their public. But when their dean accomplishes exactly what they've done, he shuts down them. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to examine the process . Something bad is her -- although zoe is revived.