In 1953, twelve year-old bad seed Billy Winston talks to Old Man Fletcher about witch burning in the old days in their small town of Gaffa, Massachussetts. The more Billy listens to sordid tales of flesh burning and women screaming in pain, the more he wants to see one. He concocts a lie that gets a young lady, Emma convicted as a witch by the townsfolk. But that's not the end of it. Years later, in 1985, while William Winston is a prominent businessman in California, revenge comes calling in the worst of ways. Waking The Witch is a story of revenge that takes its sweet time.