It is late 1940s when the beautiful countess of Rudlov disappears. The legend blames the monster, the people blame the lagoon. Nearly 50 years later, the spirited Illona Rudlov, is a struggling ballerina living in New York. Illona decides to go to Bohemia...A ballerina leaves New York for Bohemia, where she uncovers a buried family secret, a mysterious lake creature and maybe even true love in this tale based on Czechoslovakian folklore. Returning to her ancestral homeland to claim the family castle, Ilona angers local authorities, falls in with a handsome hunter and is mistaken for long-lost Countess Teresa before coming face-to-face with a family secret. Jacqueline Freid and Paul Hawkins star