Hyung-rae, the three musketeers, and Sol are students of Master Ttaengcho. While gather wild greens in the mountains they witness a sword battle where Yoshimura Genjo displays amazing swordmanship. Upon hearing this Ttaengcho tells the students of his three greatest disciples in the past: Mu-cho of Korea, Peng Jia of China, and Yoshimura Genjo of Japan. All three harbor ambition to conquer the martial world, but are kept in check by the others. However, Mu-cho of Korea has now disappeared along with the power of the Golden Mask.
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two.
Lucia (Natassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very skittish.
As he gradually turns mad, the dancer Nijinsky evokes the important episodes of his life. In costumes and sets of lush beauty, the divine puppet performs in a final show where the secondary characters are named: Diaghilev, Isadora Duncan, Stravinsky, Auguste Rodin, Léon Bakst.