After 15 years, Tomas, a not very succesfull writer, comes back to the village in Galicia where his family comes from, Arga, apparently to get an award. But he doesn’t know the real reason why he is there, to end with an old curse that is been haunting the village for the last hundred years.

After discovering a mysterious card game, a family is thrust back in time to a medieval village where they must fend off dangerous werewolves each night.