 After a troubled year in school, Jodi is informed by her teacher, Ms. Hemp, that she will recommend to Jodi s father that the girl be sent to a special boarding school next year. Horrified at the thought of being separated from her beloved father, Jodi does what any young child in the same situation would do: she sneaks into the school the next day when nobody is there but Ms. Hemp is there and brutally murders her by crushing her with a bookcase so Ms. Hemp can t meet with her father. Well, maybe Jodi isn t like the other children. As other people start to come between the girl and her father, they also meet similar fates.