Director Paul W.S. Anderson’s take on the novella by George R. R. Martin centers on a queen who, eager to fulfill her love, plays a daring gamble: she sends the powerful and feared witch Gray Alys (Mila Jovovich) into a haunted wasteland in search of magical powers, where a witch and her guide, the wanderer Boyce (Dave Bautista), must outwit and defeat both man and demon.