An ancient beast stalks a small town on the edge of the sea. No one knows its purpose, only that wherever it goes it leaves death and a trail of red footprints where the ground bleeds under its feet. Its touch can paralyze flesh and can sink a ship. A young man working for his grandfather, a reclusive woman known as a witch by townsfolk, and a ship’s captain raised under the veil of the Viking gods are thrust together to find the answers about who they are and how to kill the evil. The creature protects one, fears another, and will stop at nothing to kill the third. Out of the ruins of an iron mill from the civil war, comes the ghost of a woman from a secret society of warriors to help battle the beast. But in order to succeed, they must all learn one thing - to trust.