Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. A car speeds towards the village. The driver is a beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a gunshot wound. The two seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades the inn-keeper to accept payment in kind. As the woman extends her services to more of Lip Hook's men a false faith grips the community - and reason, logic and humanity begin to disappear.