Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, suburban housewife who has an uncommunicative businessman husband, Jack, and a distant 19-year-old daughter, Nikki, on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solace in witchcraft after visiting a local tarot reader.

Best known for his socially conscious zombie films, horror master George A. Romero also found inspiration in the feminist movement of the 1970s. Turning the marital home into a hotbed of sexual frustration, this unsung gem takes aim at the nuclear family, invoking witchcraft as an attractive answer.