"Believe it or not, I was born in a hut that was only a stone's throw away from the château de Versailles 137 years ago. I was the illegitimate daughter of a cook and a nobleman - who was also a vampire." Berlin, December 1913: Camilla is a teenage vampire who has just arrived in town because she is looking for her missing father. The teacher/writer Wilhelm Christmann has lost the will to live and is about to commit suicide when Camilla finds him. Here is what happened next.