After a spectacularly botched spook show, Hui Buh receives a plea for help from the young witch Ophelia. She is trying to keep a powerful spell-book out of the hands of the ruthless witch Erla.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...