Innocent Alice is in desperate need of work to support her recently widowed mother and two younger siblings. At the recommendation of an aunt, she leaves the inner-city slums behind to accept a position as maid to Earl Sebastian Howard in pristine Mayfair, where a dark house haunted by secrets of the past is the least of her worries. Rumor has it, the reclusive master's previous maid is dead, and Alice is just one replacement in a long line of forgotten...