Almost a hundred years ago, the Middle Ages officially ended, but in the British Isles those accused of witchcraft are still executed. At Corragh, first her grandmother died this way, and then her mother. Now the young healer herself has been thrown into prison, and a scaffold is slowly being built in the city square. For superstitious ordinary people, she is a cursed witch; for the usurper William of Orange, she is a witness to a crime committed by his vassals in the mountains of Scotland. But who will she become for the Irish priest, who was brought to this northern wilderness by a secret mission?