1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule,
awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian
railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a
tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his
trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a
local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated
community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .