Against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, a woman extracts revenge against her married paramour by charging that he and his wife are sorcerers.
A group of teenage girls are discovered at midight dancing in the woods. While the other girls attempt love spells, Abigail Williams wishes for th death of her former lover's wife. The girls suddenly find themselves accused of witchcraft. Soon the village is consumed by cries of witchcraft and as the hysteria grows, blameless victims are torn from their homes.