In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata, a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, is condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman" and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien, who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy. Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches. But when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her - a decision that may cost her everything.