A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee the scenes of their crimes police begin to close in on them, so they quickly hide themselves in a villa owned by a wealthy industrialist taking him and his family hostage.

A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.