It is 15th Century Spain and the Inquisition is raging. Countless hapless souls find a torturous death bound to the fiery hell of burning stakes. Though her father is burned as a Jewish heretic, Susanna Diego escapes and gives birth to her daughter, Teresa, at a convent. Her prayer is that the child will never know of her Jewish background and suffer persecution from the Inquisition. And then, as Susanna lays dying, she asks that her skull be fixed above the lintel of the Diego family home. Twenty years later, the nums send Teresa to care for wealthy Roberto Velez, a former Jew, who has converted to Roman Catholicism. Teresa quickly learns, however, the conversion is false.and it is not the only danger in the family, and now she herself is in. Roberto's son Louis is bewitched by the lovely Teresa. To keep her at his side after his father's death, he informs her he know who her birth mother was-and where her skull resides-and offers a burial in a Christian cemetery. But, caugh.