Duke bluebeard shows his bride judith her new home a gloomy castle judith notices seven locked doors and asks bluebeard to unlock them he reluctantly gives her the key to the first door which opens to reveal a torture chamber its walls dripping with blood the second door reveals the armoury inside which the weapons are again covered with blood the next three doors open to the treasury the garden and bluebeards kingdom in each case judith sees blood and becomes obsessed with opening