Peter Hertz, rescued from the Nazis as a child by Andre Toulon in the 1940s, is now an old man and the keeper of Toulon’s strange living puppets. When an assassin pursues him and demands the story behind Toulon and his creations, the past resurfaces. Elsewhere, rogue agent Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, a man obsessed with Toulon’s supernatural power to give life to his handcrafted figurines.