High in the Pyrenees in the south-west of what is now France, in a time when the church of Rome proclaims itself the one true religion, heresy has taken hold. The Pope sends the Inquisitors of heretical depravity to exterminate the heresy. Unbelievers are hunted down, condemned and burned. In 1308 the entire village of Montague is taken prisoner of the inquisition. No one is safe. From the secret files, the extraordinary revelations of village life under the Inquisition

For over 600 years the Inquisition enforced Catholic Orthodoxy around the world. For centuries the records have been locked away, becoming the subject of myth and legend. In 1998 the Vatican opened the archive of the Holy Office of the Inquisition...on a limited basis.