Martha Grey has lived alone with a jet-black cat in an old manor deep in the wasteland for twenty years. The valley villagers regard the black cat as an omen of ill fortune, and clan elder Henry and neighbor Old Tom lead the crowd to her door, demanding she hand over the cat to be burned. Martha protects Little Black with all her might, refusing to give an inch. When Tom's four-year-old grandson Billy suddenly goes missing and Samuel is trapped in a dry well, the valley's anger reaches its peak. Yet as the investigation unfolds, a twenty-year-old case sealed in dust is pried open -
