"Sleepy Hollow" is a television adaptation of the classic horror story. The setting is America during the Revolutionary War. During a battle, soldier Ichabod Crane is killed. Before his death, he manages to decapitate one of his opponents, who then rises from the grave in the town of Sleepy Hollow. The headless horseman, filled with rage, decides to kill the local residents. The only one capable of stopping the villain is Ichabod, with the help of police lieutenant Abby Mills.