Desperate to pursue his chosen career as a professional playwright, the young Christopher Marlowe abandons his Cambridge studies to join Lord Strange's men, a group of traveling players. En
route to perform at Oxford, the players are rehearsing among thefamous Rollright Stones on the Warwickshire border when they're rudely interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of
actor-manager Ned Sledd, which some of the players believe to be an act of witchcraft.