Fleeing creditors determined to sell him as a concubine to a perverse nobleman, a desperate young man falls from a cliff and wakes in a strange dwelling. There, he encounters a massive, scarred man rumored to be a monster who drinks tiger blood by day and devours people by night. Desperate to return home, he instead hears an unexpected proposal: “I’ll make you my mate.” Thus begins a dangerous, obsessive, and strangely comedic life together.