Wessex, 1628. Bess had no one left: no mother, no family, no friends. She makes her way through the thorny thickets to the sea, crawls along the cold ground. She needs to escape from her pursuers. But the witch hunters are not asleep. They will do everything to bring the fugitive back and set her on fire. England, our days. Tegan is only seventeen, but she already has so many problems. Constant moving, lack of friends, loneliness - all this hurts her. But one day fate gives her a meeting with a mysterious woman. Tegan realizes that in the strange hermit she can find the friend she has long dreamed of. Ahead of them is not only a long road to trust, but also a terrible battle with evil. A battle that will end in the old forest, where ancient oaks and beeches will burn.