Long ago, in a distant story landscape, a young girl leads her younger brother into a dark forest in search of food and work. Surrounded by a strange plague that turns people into beasts, the children’s mother drives them away from home. Guided by the mistrust learned from their parents, by the hints given by a hunter who saves their lives, and by the memory of a legend about a powerful witch, the two brothers give in that forest a nest of evil powers unimaginable by the spirits of several dead children.