TV update of Mary Shelley's classic novel starring Donald Sutherland and William Hurt. The crew of a weather-beaten ship stranded in the icy North Sea rescue a man close to death: Victor Frankenstein (Alec Newman). He recounts his own story of a young scientist possessed of an obsessive thirst for knowledge, who has challenged the very foundations of nature by creating a sentient creature pieced together with body parts stolen from a morgue...