For centuries, the creatures of the night have roamed this world alongside mankind; often feared, hated and hunted, they continue to live in the shadows even when the world of man has relegated them to the realm of myths and legends. Benjamin Galliard is a boy who's life was turned upside down upon their parent's divorce, now forced to leave everything he knew behind to come live with his father in Paris he'll soon find out that the creatures of the night still live among us and one of them has set their eyes on the young boy; a boy not much older than himself that goes by the name of Lucien Moreau. the same boy who appears in a 400 year old painting at the Lourve, just who is this boy? and why is he interested in him?