Germany, 1589: the townspeople of Cologne pronounce a sentence of death on the mass-murderer that has stalked the countryside in the guise of the ferocious wolf. Russia, 1812: retreating from Napoleon’s invading forces, a merchant’s girl is usually rescued from bandits with a attractive partisan using a ravenous urge for food. Brazil, 2080: The Doctor and Turlough arrive for the Rio de Janeiro carnival. Can be wealthy heiress Ileana de Santos all that she appears? What sinister health problem afflicts her invalid kid, tended from the strange Dr Hayashi? And who specifically is Rosa, involved on a top secret pursuit to fulfil the destiny of her extinct tribe? Time is operating out for Rosa, Ileana and the physician, as the fearsome shadow of an ancient werewolf moves ever closer…