Veronica Bergman, an aspiring writer who is barely in her thirties, returns from New Zealand to her homeland of Sweden, to a small town. She settles in the outskirts, opposite her home there is a single house, and in it, according to local residents, lives old Astrid, the local witch, who does not communicate with anyone and almost never appears in public. What could these completely different people have in common, except for the tragic events in their past? But it is precisely these tragedies that are the connecting link that forever united their souls.