This is the story about a young nun called Agnes. After she has been suffering for a long time under the overbearing reverend mother at the cloister, Agnes managed to escape from the sisterhood. Now she is free, but this still does not mean luck for the young girl, as she is weak from hunger. Agnes tries to survive by begging when she is peddling from one door to the next. One day the guards arrest her. She is brought to the judges in the witches tower...