A girl and her mother are mushroom hunting when the young child finds a thirty-year-old skeleton, directed by a glowing boy who has been missing since 1975.

Ah, 1975, a time when a young priest hung himself — maybe — in a church tower. Shortly after his funeral, a mysterious girl appears in the village who everyone thinks killed the priest. After all, she’s afraid of crosses.

Another flashback: Erwin, his nephew Albert and Martin Delacroix get all messed up on absinthe. Albert makes a doll from brooms and rags, telling the others about the Sennentuntschi, a legend of three herdsmen who make a doll that comes to life. The next day, a girl dressed like the doll shows up and despite Erwin telling Martin that the story ends with all the men dead, they assault the girl, leading to Erwin losing his sheep and goats before being stabbed, Albert dies in a fire, and Martin dies of tetanus after being bitten by the girl. Oh, Martin. You didn’t break up with your lover. You killed her and were hiding here.

Meanwhile, a cop named Reusch is the only one who wants to save the mysterious girl. Even the bishop rallies the people around him, as he claims that she’s a demon and once showed up 25 years ago looking the same. That woman was really her mother, who the bishop raped. She went into hiding in the mountain house of the herdsmen, but was thrown from a cliff by the holy man. He then murdered the herdsman and kept their child in an underground chamber. When she escaped, she became the mystery girl in town. 

After she runs into the woods, Reusch finds her alive, having turned the skins of Albert, Erwin and Martin into a doll. This makes the officer angry, so she runs again, falling to her death in a foggy ravine. When he finds her body, he kills himself. Those are the bodies found at the beginning.

Directed by Michael Steiner, this movie is based on “The Guschg Herdsmen’s Doll,” which was already made in 1989 as Sukkubus. This may involve a confusing amount of time travel, but it’s an interesting idea.

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