在这部威文庄园之谜剧情/悬疑/恐怖片中,孤女艾丽丝的父亲被威文庄园的老爷逼债而死,被庄园的老爷收养。长大后的艾丽丝美貌迷人,老庄园主禁不住心生邪念。艾丽丝和相爱的查尔斯逃往威文家的另一处庄园。谁知这里也不是世外桃源,查尔斯患有精神病的前妻弗洛使艾丽丝的生活跌入了一个又一个噩梦。艾丽丝生产,弗洛竟然手持利刃出现在他们面前,为了救助艾丽丝母子,查尔斯付出了生命。艾丽丝怕儿子汤姆受到伤害,连忙送到人家寄养,然而不久,却传来了孩子死亡的消息。艾丽丝开始怀疑这种种悲剧的后面隐藏着阴谋……
After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons. When the squire makes his romantic intentions known to Alice, she and Charles elope, incurring the wrath of his father. They avoid the squire by living in an outlying estate where their baby is born. Charles is attacked by a mysterious woman who literally comes out of the woodwork, and the baby is moved to the home of an acquaintance of Harry, the squire's other son. Alice faces the loss of her child and possible loss of her husband amid the gloomy home she feels trapped in, surrounded by secrets and mysteries and wondering who she can really trust.