Our hero, Dante, has messed up. As a soldier in the Crusades he was called up to purify the 'heretics' who had the gumption to believe something other than Christianity -a simple task for a man like him - but he never bargained on Beatrice. Dante's lover, and a suspicious maiden to be sure, Beatrice made a deal with Lucifer - If Dante remained true to her on his mission the devil would bring him back alive, but if he got a little frisky with some slave girl the devil could have Beatrice's soul, forever.