Three sisters walk in a cold heath as they avoid their crazy mother at home. The youngest thinks about a sow who was found eating the corpses of her dead piglets that morning. The three sisters come across two men in the heath who have just come back from battle. They seem hostile, but the oldest and middle sister offer prophecies to the older man, who is a general. The youngest sister escapes to a dark forest in her mind and when she returns the general is afraid of what she has said out loud to him. The men leave the girls alone. The mother of the three girls tells them that their father was possessed when they conceived the youngest sister and then the father disappeared. The mother believes that the youngest sister has some sort of shadow in her. The youngest sister goes to the village often and meets with a man named Michael whom she has sex with even though he plans to marry a woman named Beatrice. The youngest sister tells Michael that she caught her older sister with two kids and called one of them her brother. When she questioned her sister about it, her sister said that she must have imagined it. Michael’s father then catches the youngest sister and Michael together and she flees naked into the woods. One night as the youngest sister lies next to her mother, some men come in and abduct the three sisters. They claim that the sisters have poisoned the mind of the general, who is now king. The youngest sister takes all of the blame, saving her sisters, and is hung on a pyre. She escapes to the forest inside her mind as they burn her.