 Polly Ames (Dominique Dunne) returns to her home, a hotel run by her father, to discover stories of ghosts and strange figures in black roaming the hallways. The "ghost" has already scared several tennants off, and if it keeps doing so, the hotel will have to be sold. Polly teams up with tennant D.C. (Roscoe Lee Browne) and they begin to work on solving the mystery of who is pretending to be the ghost.