What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account? When he is suspended from his university job for this idea, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction-a nightmare from which there is no waking.