Betriek lives on the edge of a bog in the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. She discovers that something is chasing her.

Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.

In 1991, the little girl Betriek is hidden in a cupboard and hears her grandmother being killed on the upper floor and sees her blood dripping inside her hideout. Thirty years later, Betriek is a widow musician with a little daughter Hanna and lives with her mother Elske and father Roelof in the house where her grandmother was killed nearby a bog. Near to her house, a group of archaeologists led by the Danish Jonas and his assistant Sonja are digging the recently discovered preserved bodies of women. Hanna is rehearsing for the play about the local ancient legend of Feike, a young servant that got pregnant from her master Walter. His wife Helen accuses Feike of witchcraft and before dying, she makes a pact with Moloch where her unborn child, Helen and her descendants would belong to the pagan God. Soon, Betriek and Jonas befriend each other, and she tells him that the town will celebrate the ancient folklore. Further, she discloses her experience when she was a child and how it affected her mother, who has some mysterious illness and has become kleptomaniac of sugar bags in cafeterias, and her father that become alcoholic. Out of the blue, the Romanian member of Jonas's team Radu tries to kill Elske, claiming that they are forcing him to do it, but her husband saves her. Is a curse affecting Betriek's family?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil