Although many teenagers these days would tell you there's nothing more exciting than being a vampire, Jerme Volt Ampere is not ready to embrace her destiny. Unfortunately this doesn't sit well with her 200-year old grandmother, with whom Jerne lives in the attic of an old house in Budapest.

Budapest. Jerne Voltampere's grandmother doesn't look her age-- 284 years old. She is a vampire-- and wants her grandchild to follow the family tradition. Jerne writes children's books, but they are considered too bloody to be published. Grandmother is adamant: Jerne will have to give up her literary ambitions and become a vampire. In the meantime, she takes an undemanding job as an editor. But the married couple who run the publishing house behave more and more suspiciously ...