Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is
a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the village is more than
the end of the road--it's the end of the world. Beyond it, there is
nothing but mist-shrouded marshland. Few travelers take the road to Lip
Hook, but one foggy night, a car speeds perilously toward the village.
The driver is a dangerously beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a
gunshot wound and a suitcase containing a treasure he has risked his
life for. Cash-strapped but in need of a place to hide, the two
fugitives seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades
the innkeeper to accept payment in kind. As days pass and the woman
extends her services to more of Lip Hook's men, among them the village
priest, a false faith grips the community--and reason, logic, and
humanity begin to disappear.