Still reeling from her mother's suicide, a young woman agrees to marry a handsome widower she just met. Becoming mistress of his ancestral castle sounds like a fairy tale. Looming high atop a rocky cliff on an isolated swath of New England - the Gothic manor is garish, forbidding, and bleak. Inside, the atmosphere is tense and foreboding. Inexperienced and insecure, she finds herself jealous of his late wife's beguiling beauty. Worse, she's unnerved by the uncanny resemblance between mother and daughter. After an ominous family secret is revealed, she decides to run, but a high-risk pregnancy...