Gavião is a bandit who is massacring the people of a region and kidnapping the women. Gregory is a hero, whose wife was also kidnapped and he is determined not to rest until he finds her.
Filmmaker José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in a small farm, where they spend leisure time while Mojica writes the story for his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force.