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Ben and Charlotte are planning to leave England when the girl finds out she's pregnant. Unexpectedly, Ben's mother turns out to be dead set against their departure. Soon Ben dies in a strange accident, and the grief-stricken Charlotte is brought to his family's enormous ancestral mansion. His mother's strange obsession with her unborn grandchild, frightening visions, and above all the impossibility of leaving the house drive Charlotte to the edge of madness, making her suspect something terrible.