Casanova meets a new manservant, who will bear witness to Casanova's final days. Leaving a Swiss chateau with its typical 18th century atmosphere of licentiousness, he spends his final days in impoverished, dismal northern Europe. There, his world of frivolity and high society, as well as his Enlightenment rationalism, crumble when faced with a new, violent, esoteric, and romantic force represented by Dracula and his eternal power.