This starts out a bit like Pillars of the Earth without the cathedral-building project - many of the same actors and identical sets give this air - and turns into a dark tale of superstition, witchcraft, and medieval mumbo jumbo.
Plague has brought out the worst in an already pretty unsophisticated lot in 12th Century England.
A bishop sends out an armed party under the able supervision of Sean Bean, to investigate a witch who has been claiming to protect a distant village from the plague, and thereby flaunting the "true God".
Quite who this witch and her followers are we never learn, but as Bean refers to them as "blasphemous scum", maybe they were the Blasphemous Scum wing of the Druids? One of their number calling out to the "unholy trinity divine" as he giddy-upped some horses to tear Bean limb from limb should have given the game away, and revealed that they were downright cads.
It's a not at all taxing story of a village cut off from the plague by a marsh, but hiding a dark secret. Harmless (oh how tempting is was to drop that H), and unremarkable.
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