: A 500-year-old sorceress (played by Monica Bellucci ) who requires the sacrifice of 12 young girls to restore her eternal youth and beauty.
: A local guide and trapper whose own family was taken by the forest's curse.
: A world where the ground moves, trees are alive, and fairy-tale elements like Little Red Riding Hood and the Gingerbread Man take on dark, terrifying forms.
: The sensitive dreamer obsessed with folklore and the belief that magic might actually exist.
The brothers’ lucrative scam eventually catches the eye of the French military commander, General Delatombe. He arrests them and forces them to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in a remote village called Marbaden, where young girls are vanishing without a trace.
What starts as another expected "fake" job quickly turns into a battle with genuine malevolent forces. Inside an enchanted forest, the brothers encounter: