
The story matches the landscape it describes, undoubtedly bleak and dark. From the start, Agnes is a condemned woman, living out the remainder of her sentence before her execution. Given lack of funding for public jails, Agnes is placed with the family of a low level government official in a town close to the one in which the murder she is accused of took place. Slowly, however, her story unfolds, with the gently prodding of Toti, an Assistant Reverend, who is to prepare her for death.
