Director Paul W.S. Anderson and based on the short story by George R.R. Martin, the story centers on a queen who, eager to fulfill her love, plays a daring game: she sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys (Mila Jovovich) to a haunted wasteland in search of magical power, where a sorceress and her guide, the wanderer Boyce (Dave Bautista), must outwit and defeat both man and demon.