When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is surrounded by a string of murders of young boys, the superstitious sailors are given to apportion blame, with all the suspects involving the neighborhood"witch" Maciara. The community gripped by dread and also a desire for vengeance that is bloody as well as with the bodies piling up, two outsiders - spoilt girl Patrizia and city journalist Andrea - form teams to cracked the situation. However, before the mystery is solved, more blood is going to happen to be spilled, and maybe not all of it belonging into innocents...