Introduction: The tale of an ancient Slavic tribe's curse and the battle against it waged by the inhabitants of an ancient city and their descendants. An age-old curse cast by a dark sorcerer steals the adolescent daughters of the village folk. The tribe musters its strength and ventures to the sorcerer's island to fight every fifteen years. They slay the evil one, yet he rises again. Once more, the time for battle has arrived. Into the village comes the family of a priest who escaped the patriarch's fury. Will this new aid turn the tide in the coming struggle...