Therese lives in two worlds As housemaid she has fallen in love with the sophisticated Countess Meta von W As a young woman of poorhumble descent she has to watch as her sister Magdalena is being hauled into the abyss by a devilish sectarian Together with this notorious pastor Thomas Pöschl Magdalena conducts exorcisms at her communityin the village Small children have to renounce Satan a young woman is brutally exorcized and later proclaimed a saint by Pöschl