Kate Davis [Chantal Contouri] is waking up. As she becomes more lucid and realizes thatshe's been sleeping in a coffin, she begins to scream. She runs to thelittle hole in the wall that is her only contact with the outside world.A few weeks ago, Kate was living a wonderful life. She is beautiful,wealthy, lives in a fancy house, has handsome architect Derek Whitehall [Rod Mullinar] for a boyfriend, and she's planning a four week holiday in theStates. She doesn't know it, but her life is about to be turned upsidedown. It begins the next morning when Kate goes to the front gate to pickup her milk and newspaper. Her cat accidentally knocks over the milkcarton and blood, not milk, spills out. The next thing Kate knows, she'sbeen drugged and taken to the Q.A.S.T.A. Research Facility where she ispoked, prodded, and questioned by a team of researchers. Turns out thatKate is a descendent of Elizabeth Bathory and that she has been kidnappedby The Brotherhood, a worldwide cartel of modernday vampires who think ofthemselves as a superior race that has gained youth, power, andimmortality through the drinking of human blood. They procure their bloodby raising "blood cows," humans raised under controlled conditions so asto keep their blood free from contaminants and allergens. The blood fromthe human bloodcows is harvested by attaching them to a milking machine which sucksthe blood from their veins. The blood is then processed, poured into milkcartons, and distributed to the other vampires. Q.A.S.T.A. is but one ofseveral such farms that supply human blood to over 70,000 vampires aroundthe world.The aim of the Brotherhood is to awaken Kate to her legacy andrekindle in her the thirst for human blood. Mrs Barker [Shirley Cameron], one of the leadpsychologists, wants to start Kate's "conditioning" immediately. Dr Gauss [Henry Silva]thinks that Kate is too strong-willed and that the conditioning mightdrive her insane, but he goes along with Barker's plan anyway. Mr Hodge [Max Phipps],also of some hoidy-toidy vampire lineage that is never identified, can'twait to mate with Kate and unite their blood lines. Only Dr Eric Fraser [David Hemmings]seems concerned with Kate's welfare and wants to use reason and persuasionto get her to willingly join them as their Baroness. Kate will havenothing to do with it, no matter how many times they try to force her todrink blood. When Barker and Gauss place Kate in the room with only a tinyhole through which to view the outside world, as it was done to herancestor, Dr Fraser makes them release her. Kate attempts to run away, butshe is hunted down and brought back to the farm. It looks like there is noescape.Tonight is the opening ceremony for The Farm's Festival. Visitingvampires from around the world will be attending. Kate is invited toparticipate but refuses. That night, just after midnight, she is awakenedby the chanting of "Hyma Perpetui" (Human Blood Always), the motto of TheFarm. Kate peeks in the chapel door and witnesses an elderly vampiredrinking the blood from the neck of a young bloodcow. Kate's screamsdisrupt the service. Barker is not pleased, but Fraser reminds her thatKate needs time. Against Fraser's advice, however, Barker decides toproceed with the conditioning. First, Kate is drugged. When she wakes up,she finds herself on a picnic with Derek. After making love to Derek, Katebites into a chicken leg and gets a mouth full of blood. Derek suddenlyturns into Hodges, who thanks her for honoring him. Feeling soiled, Katejumps into a nearby river. When she emerges, a rainstorm is hitting. Sheseeks shelter and finds herself at the gate of her own house where she ismet by her maid, Lori Dantry [Rosie Sturgess]. Lori assures Kate that she only left thehouse an hour ago and escorts her to the shower. Kate strips and entersthe shower stall, but the shower spews out blood. "The thirst is in all ofus," Lori consoles. Kate screams, "NOT IN ME!"Suddenly, Kate is 5-years old. She is being sent off to boardingschool where she learns that her mother has died. Mrs Barker's voice tellsKate to "Cut your ties with the past," but Kate goes in search of hermother, Barker, Lori, anyone. Instead, she finds herself in a room thatseems to be collapsing around her. Only when she picks up a mug of blooddoes the destruction stop, but she pours the blood onto the floor.Suddenly something starts hacking through the door with an axe. Terrified,Kate finds another mug of blood, but this time she drinks it and thehacking stops. For the next fourteen days of her programming, shewillfully drinks the blood whenever it is given to her. Everyone ispleased with Kate's progress except for Dr Fraser. "Let us hope that,despite all this, we're still able to earn her respect," is his onlycomment.It is several days later. Dressed in regal splendor, Kate ispreparing to engage in ceremonial blood-drinking. Urged on by whispers of,"It's your destiny," Kate allows the silver fangs to be placed in hermouth, a cut to be made in the bloodcow's neck, and she willingly bendsforward and begins drinking the spurting blood. Again, everyone isimpressed, but Mrs Barker wants to make sure that Kate's indoctrinationwill hold up in the outside world, so they send her home. Theindoctrination appears to be holding, as Kate willingly drinks from theneck of her secretary but, when it comes to drinking from Derek, shebalks. Mrs Barker decides that Kate needs more conditioning, but Dr Fraserrefuses to allow it. Before the committee can meet to discuss what to doabout Kate, Fraser decides to help Kate escape. He first releases Derekfrom the cell where he is being held. As they attempt to escape from TheFarm, they are seen by Mrs Barker. Derek runs, but Fraser stays tostruggle with Barker. Barker falls into a blood processing vat. While theworkers try to figure out what is blocking the number three tube from thevat, Fraser goes back to get Kate and they prepare to take off in ahelicopter. Unfortunately, Gauss sees them and grabs the runner of thehelicopter as it takes off. Gauss eventually falls off, lands on a stringof high voltage wires, and is fried to a crisp.Fraser leads Kate to a hut in the woods where he says that Derek iswaiting for her. What she finds, however, is Derek being exsanguinated.Kate orders Fraser to release Derek. As Kate and Derek embrace, Fraserputs in a pair of fangs. Kate begs Fraser for a second chance. "I AM oneof you," she says over and over as Fraser drinks her blood. In thedistance, Hodges' voice can be heard thanking Fraser for heading up theconditioning program that will now make it possible for the two greatestvampire families to be united forever. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
Output: Question: How do they try to break down Kate's resistance?, Answer: conditioning program