The disappearance of a young boy, from a local village, is the catalyst for the rebirth of an ancient legend that is bound, by cruelty and malice, to sinister catacombs buried deep within the English countryside.
A captive-bred panther, infected with a gene-mutating bovine virus, stalks a disabled veterinary surgeon and a group of new-age travellers over an agricultural wasteland decimated by a contagious strain of livestock disease.
When Marine Engineers are tasked with the survey of an abandoned oceanic fortress, they discover a trove of hidden treasure, and a vengeful entity determined to protect it at all costs.