Out of work and out of love Becky Nurse is an ordinary but strong-willed grandmother just trying to get by in post-Obama America. She's also the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse who was infamously executed for witchcraft in 1692 - but things have changed for women since then haven't they? Desperate to raise her troubled teenaged granddaughter right and also hook up with an old flame Becky visits a local witch for help. But those spells and potions don't work out exactly as planned.