In a small prosperous American town, a Gypsy camp arrives and begins to entertain the townspeople with fortune-telling and songs for a few coins. The Gypsies — eternal wanderers — are a people who know the secrets of ancient witchcraft and black magic. And when the local lawyer, Billy Halleck, in his car accidentally hits an elderly Gypsy woman and then walks away from responsibility, horror comes to the town. “The Gypsy Baron” punishes Halleck himself. Now Halleck is “the Fading”—the one who is being drained. The price for what he did is so terrible that Billy will regret staying alive a thousand times, because death would have been mercy…