An eccentric flamboyant critic, who's staying at a lodge in the Irish woods, makes a bet with a mild-mannered skeptical writer, that the legend about the sad banshee haunting the forest searching for her lover is real.
An American visiting a remote Irish manor hears an eerie moan from the grounds. Braving the dark night, the man sees a beautiful woman flitting across the moor. When he returns to the house, his host, an inveterate practical joker, informs him the woman is really a banshee and dares him to confront her.—Anonymous
The American screenplay writer Douglas Rogers travels by taxi to the old manor of Director John Hampton in the Dublin countryside to show him his last work. He discovers in John an extravagant man with a peculiar sense of humor. When they hear a moaning in the woods, John tells Douglas that it is a Banshee ("a female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family") wandering in the woods and challenges the writer to meet her. Douglas believes it is a prank and meets a weird woman that claims that she is there for William, but pointing to John inside the house. Douglas tells the writer about his meeting with the Banshee and the director believes it is a joke and leaves the mansion to find the woman and his fate.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil