Lizzy is a troublesome, resourceful frontierswoman settling a distant stretch of land on the Nineteenth-century American frontier. Remoted from civilization in a desolate wilderness the place the wind by no means stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that appears to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a close-by homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into movement a stunning chain of occasions.
