 It is the second installment of Marins' "Coffin Joe trilogy", being preceded by "At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul" (1963), and followed by "Embodiment of Evil" (2008).Coffin Joe returns to his village after recovering in a hospital from shock and blindness from the events in the previous film.Having been absolved of his previous crimes and murders, this time he is even more determined to find the "perfect" woman with whom to sire a son of superior lineage, for his singular, obsessive desire for the "continuity of blood".