In the mid-1500s, a witch is burned in Scotland and places a curse on the inhabitants before she dies.

One hundred years later, the tree she was chained to and burned still stands with no one daring to destroy it.

The witch's descendant, Martha Gunt, is sentenced to be burned for witchcraft.

[3] The sequences set in the Hell were entirely filmed in the Castellana Caves, in the province of Bari.

[4] The film is referred as "an interpretation of mythology cum the gothic horror genre".