At the end of the 19th century, Zélie lives on a remote farm under the suffocating control of her father Jacob, who calls himself pious, but is still brutal. Director Quarxx conjures merciless an eye-for-an-eye world, where domestic violence, religious fanaticism, and a deadly pandemic become inextricably intertwined. This Gothic horror is a feverish descent into a hellish realm with only one possible destination: darkness.