Em uma pequena aldeia, uma jovem madrasta se envolve com o filho de seu marido pastor, que está de volta ao vilarejo. Quando fica sabendo da relação, o pastor morre e, durante seu funeral, sua mãe acusa a jovem de bruxaria.
The God-fearing vicar Niels Quist lives with his beloved daughter Mette in the small Jutland town of Vejlby. The newly elected county bailiff and local magistrate, Erik Sørensen, is the lucky fellow who wins Mette’s heart, but their happiness is short-lived: One day, the vicar’s farmhand mysteriously disappears, and all signs suggest that the vicar is the killer. But is Erik Sørensen willing and able to sentence his own true love's father to death?
