When gogo dancer Lucía nicks a fortune in designer drugs from her mafia employers the mobsters dogged pursuit forces her to seek sanctuary with her estranged sister Rocío and niece Alba in The Venus a decrepit apartment complex on the outskirts of Madrid As terrible rotten nogood luck would have it Lucía soon finds herself sole guardian to little Alba after Rocío suddenly flies the concrete coop unable to handle the supernatural stress of living in a monolith that is apparently also host to a malignant evil one that invades its tenants waking nightmares Taking a few cues from HP Lovecrafts The Dreams in the Witch House Venus piles on the blood and bombshells like a double bill of Demons 2 and The Sentinel