On a stormy night in the South, Marcia Elizabeth Hunter (Pippa Scott) takes a detour when the road is closed, and crashes her car when she has a blowout and passes out. She wakes up in a bed in a mansion, rescued by Victor Harrod (James Griffith), and Granny (Jeanette Nolan), and is held captive their strange shut-in family with a disturbing secret. When she tries to leave, she is shot at by a young boy, Rennie (Tom Nolan). Lollie (Beverly Washburn), a young girl in the house, is afflicted with a family curse.