术士的魔咒从一百多年前流传下来，随著一个家族的隐私深埋地下。一个平静的美国小镇，即将被来自地狱的复仇邪灵，血洗全镇。古曼家族在一百多年前与一位术士订约，术士施魔法史洪福镇风调雨顺，年年丰收。古曼家却因该术士行淫练沾污镇上的妇女，而背约将术士杀死。如今术士的邪灵从地狱里脱困前来报仇。只有克丽儿和古曼家的工头狄伦能解厄运，而他们必须先找到术士遗留下来的魔咒书，按书上的指示降服邪灵。要不然全镇在劫难逃，生不如死。

As CFO, Alexander Meier fights for the survival of the company he works for. When Hans-Werner Brockmann the new appointed CEO, a hardliner, is appointed, Alexander gets involved in a power struggle that increasingly throws him off track. Before the ruins of his existence, Alexander sees only one possibility left to take revenge.

811 AD, a family, isolated in their home, deep in the woods a few days travel from Birka. They are poor. The hunting and fishing has been bad for some time, and the father, Joar, takes the desperate measure of going on a Viking raid. Joar does not return for a long time, and the family starts to fear he never will. Runa, the oldest daughter, takes over her fathers chores in his absence. She misses him dearly and nourishes a tender hope that he, once again, will return to them. But in her heart, somehow she knows, that the suffering of the family has just begun. There is something in the air, something in the water, the wind and in the soil. Runa is becoming aware of something vile, something dangerous out in the forest. One day when she is out hunting, she finds a bleeding man, a warrior, almost unconscious. She brings him inside and the family tend to his wounds. As he heals, she realizes he is sent to protect the family from an approaching evil. And he brings news of her father.

　　The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.

故事发生在1964年的6月，一辆载有三位民权主义者的车辆被三K党所劫持，之后一行人音信全无。鲁帕特（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）和艾伦（威廉·达福 Willem Dafoe 饰）是两帮调查局的探员，他们被指派调查这起恶劣的事件，然而，当两人到达小镇开始调查时，却发现他们的工作遭遇了重重的困难，没有人愿意相信他们，更没有人能够提供有价值的线索。　　皮尔（布拉德·道里夫 Brad Dourif 饰）是小镇的副镇长，同时亦是一名坚定的三K党成员，个性粗暴邪恶的他常常将软弱温和的妻子（弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰）揍得遍体鳞伤。鲁帕特十分同情皮尔妻子的遭遇，随着时间的推移，皮尔的妻子渐渐对鲁帕特产生了感情，这让鲁帕特和艾伦看到了案件的突破口。