The movie is prefaced by a speech of Dr. Polidori who introduces himself directly to the audience and shows his viewers Mary Shelley's grave. He tells the audience that she is the original author of the Frankenstein story and that she wrote it at the age of only 19. Traumatized by the death of his little brother, the young medical student Victor Frankenstein seeks a way to undo death. He meets the much older Dr. Henry Clerval who shares his obsession with creating life. With the power of intensified sunlight, which Clerval identified as the major source of life, Victor creates a man of magnificent beauty. Victor starts to teach “his new Adam” and develops an intimate friendship with it. After some time, however, the process of the experiment starts to reverse itself which results in accele