Frances Smith has found herself in the midst of community paranoia; multiple "attacks" by an unworldly, spiritual figure have been reported by numerous village folk and tensions are high. Over the course of an evening at the Black Lyon Pub, Frances' morality is tested by her constable parish cousin and young ghost hunter Thomas Millwood, paving the way for a hunt to rid the community of their ghastly apparitions once and for all. But Frances' own ambitions may lead to dangerous and irredeemable consequences.