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After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two
women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to
survive against both natural forces and the men who
have been sent to rid the community of alleged
witchcraft.Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old
Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast,
watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless
storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and
father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks
below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the
tiny Northern town of Vard? must fend for
themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure
arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where
he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with
him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady
with her husband's authority and terrified by it. In
Vard?, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has
never seen before: independent women. But Absalom
sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a
mighty evil. As Maren and Ursa