The film is a sweeping adventure set in a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment. Set in a mythical land, it follows a man and a young boy as they investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
A 19th-century English anatomist (Timothy Dalton) pays grave robbers to supply cadavers, never mind how. But then the robbers decide to supply fresher corpses that worth more to the doctor, killing the poor inhabitants.
Tales from Earthsea
The Doctor and the Devils