Jenny, welcomed by her aunt, a housekeeper in a mansion, enters the old Mrs. Crowl's service. At night Jenny hears the cry of a child, and the old woman behaves in a mysterious way with her.
A man, tormented by terrible nightmares, takes his mother's advice and leaves his wife, putting the blame on her. But the nightmares will go on and on.
Priscilla, a little girl, lives with her uncle and aunt since the death of her parents. She misses so bad her mother and her mentor, Mr. George. She is not aware of his relatives' intentions: to kill her so they can inherit the whole family estate.
After watching his father die because of a backfired experiment, a boy is determined to take revenge on the scientists who his father was working with, the hideous Dr. Coppelius.