Mavis and her daughter Victoria flee the city looking for refuge at an isolated home for abused women. The woman in charge, Bea (Academy Award Nominee: Kathleen Quinlan), immediately takes young Victoria under her wing. Under Bea s tutelage, Victoria becomes increasingly hostile toward her mother, worrying Mavis that Bea isn t the kindly woman she appeared to be. As Mavis comes to learn that other women who ve stayed at the farmhouse are now missing, she confronts Bea. But she s too late as Bea has convinced Victoria to murder her mother. Locked away in the barn, Mavis must escape and free her daughter from the grasp of a psychotic killer before she loses her forever.