The Serpent's Egg plot
"The kind of terror that could never be... until now... until Bergman!"
A week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an unemployed circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin after Germany's defeat in World War I. After his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks shelter in the apartment of an old acquaintance, Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in this war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job at Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the terrible truth behind the work of this strange charitable professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that led his brother to suicide. floated.