Year 1866. Venancio, a young gaucho, embarks on a journey to escape from a curse through a war-torn region desperately seeking salvation among rustlers, priests, shamans and deserters. The stronger his fear is, the more real the legend becomes.

A decade after a tragic ancestral ritual claimed her best friend's life, a young woman returns to her Argentinian mountain hometown, only to find the malevolent forces she thought she'd left behind are still hunting her.