A woman in an abusive relationship is made to realize that she can no longer tolerate her fiance's ill treatment toward her.

Pastor Elias is preparing a sermon for when the bishop is coming by his church.

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.