Young American ballerina Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) has received an invite to study at the prestigious Tanz Dance Akademie in Germany. However, there’s a terrible storm, and she arrives in time to see a young woman leaving after shouting something at an unseen person inside. Furthermore, Suzy is told to go away over the intercom, an oversight that is corrected the following day, but something strange has happened. The young woman who left, an expelled student, goes to stay in a friend’s apartment when something attacks her through the window of the bathroom. Said bathroom is not on the ground floor, and she dies violently, finally falling through a skylight, her throat slashed and her neck in a noose. Oh, and her friend was likewise killed by the falling glass. Something supernatural is around, it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzy doesn’t know much about this, but strange things happen when she tries to assert herself in a manner that her teachers don’t want her to. She doesn’t want to live at the Akademie, but then a bout of weakness during class forces her to convalesce in the room they set up for her. A blind piano player is laid off, and after shouting at the headmistress, has his throat ripped out by his seeing eye dog not long afterwards. Another student is certain there is an evil presence at the school, and that presence can only be one thing, hinted at in the musical score and finally given voice: witches. There are witches at the school, and Suzy may have to keep her wits about her if she’s going to survive there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n