The horror that came to the well-fed, rich town took on one of the most ancient guises in the world - the guise of a gypsy camp. Gypsies, eternal vagabonds who entertain crowds for small coins, possess the ancient secrets of black witchcraft. And when happy lawyer Billy Halleck accidentally hits an old woman from the camp with his car and is not punished for what happened, the “gypsy baron” punishes him himself. The retribution for what he has done is such that Billy will regret a thousand times more that he remained alive, for death would have been a mercy...