When a group of teenage girls accuse others in 1692 Salem, Mass., of witchcraft to cover up their own forbidden activities, the town erupts with allegations of satanic activity and hysteria. The arrests and trials that follow expose a community paralyzed by fear, religious extremism, and greed. "I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!" - Act I, Scene 1, Abigail
