 Elderly Emma Binham is bedridden and taken care of by her younger brother Stephen, a doctor who gave up his practice to move back into the family house with Emma and his two other sisters. Their father had left everything to Emma, which doesn t sit well with Stephen. When Emma dies he quickly begins to plan his future, which is to be financed by selling the house and splitting the money with his two living sisters. All three are rattled when the image of their dead sister sitting up in bed appears as a shadow on the parlor wall, and nothing will remove it.