An English school teacher outposted in Africa has a run in with the local witch doctor and suffers a nervous breakdown. After revering back in England she takes a job teaching in a small untry town hoping to make a new st for herself. All goes well at first, until she sts to hear some disturbing stories about the town. She soon disvers the town is home to a ven of witches and they plan to sacrifice a local girl in one of their rituals.