In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.

度假巴士司机马里奥在临近退休之际，不顾妻子的反对，接下了最后一笔生意，送一伙嬉皮青年前往克罗地亚，参加为期一周的露天音乐节。而在那里，马里奥却意外遇见了许久没有联系的儿子杰姆……