Thomas Hutter is a real estate agent who is sent to the Carpathians to sell a house to a Count. Once he nears Count Orlok’s castle, he realizes that this is not a regular business trip. He discovers his host’s true nature, when Hutter injures himself with a knife. The uncanny Count plunges himself on him and Hutter awakes the next morning with two inexplicable marks on his neck. Hutter’s life is spared when the Count loses interest in him. Orlok sees a picture of his visitor’s wife, and swiftly makes his way to Hutter’s residence. Nosferatu tries to win over the beautiful naïve woman through his powers. She offers herself, as if under hypnosis, and Nosferatu forgets time. Taken by surprise, the brightness of the rising sun makes him disintegrate into smoke.