Upper Austria in 1750. A deep, dark forest. On a hilltop, the corpse of a hanged woman is displayed. The deeply religious and highly sensitive Agnes, considered something of an outcast, regards the dead woman with pity. But also with longing: she feels like a stranger in the world of her husband Wolf, whom she has just married. It is an emotionally cold world consisting of work, chores and expectations. Agnes increasingly withdraws into herself. Her internal prison becomes ever more oppressive, her melancholy more overwhelming. Soon, her only way out seems to be a shocking act of violence.
“We started with a courtroom thriller because of the historical protocols, but then we went through a shift. We wanted people to be able to understand the situation Agnes is in and to feel how she experiences the world. So you can't introduce any genre twists. We love horror films, but we also take the characters seriously. If the characters need something other than the classic mechanics of a horror film, then we avoid them.” (Veronika Franz)