故事讲述男友意外去世，精神脆弱的女友怀着孕来到了男友的家庭中，男友的家人对她的每个举动都时时关注。由于精神幻觉的困扰，她对男友家人的意图产生了怀疑。

In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.