In the village of Duskdale, winter has brought a blight that is taking the children. Emmie steals an apple from the black orchard to save young Pip, not knowing what the orchard will take in return. A dark folk horror story about the price of forbidden things and the cruelty of a bargain you don't know you've made.

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