Arriving alone at a dilapidated orphanage in 1930s England in the middle of a dark night, a young girl, Jennifer, tentatively explores what is to be her new home.

But things are not what they should be in the gloomy, creepy mansion house she nervously enters. Children's whispers and giggles behind doors, pattering footsteps, and the fact there is not a soul in sight make it clear from the off that something is very wrong.

The house's sinister juveniles soon have their new visitor captive, and she is whisked away in a coffin onto (what else?) a giant zeppelin.