Five hundred years ago, he served as a priest during the Spanish Inquisition. When he thought his love affair, which had produced a child, had been discovered, he had the man who knew the secrets put to death. Then by his own decree, he had his lover put to death as well. Distraught, he took his own life, and woke up . . . And now, after one hundred years of awareness as a gargoyle, a woman identical to his lost love enters the church. And the gargoyle discovers that he can move . . .