Evacuated from London during World War II, a party of eight schoolchildren, led by headmistress Jean Hogg and young teacher Eve Parkins, arrive in the near-deserted rural village of Crythin Gifford. Their destination is the now-dilapidated Eel Marsh House, on an island isolated from the mainland by Nine Lives Causeway. As they seek sanctuary from the horrors of wartime, their presence soon stirs a malevolent force that has haunted this imposing, cut-off building for decades. As children once more play in the grounds, out of the darkness comes the vengeful spirit, The Woman In Black.