The film catches up with Hansel (Renner) and Gretel (Arterton) 15 years after the traumatic gingerbread house incident and finds them now serving as bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches.
The Mayor of Augsburg recruits them to rid the town and nearby forests of an evil sorceress (Famke Janssen ) who is planning to sacrifice many local children at the witches’ gathering during the upcoming ‘Blood Moon’ night in two days time.
To make things worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer (Peter Stormare) who has taken power in Augsburg and conducts a very indiscriminate witch-hunt of his own.