When Mallon, a beautiful housekeeper, is attacked by her employer and rushes out into the rain, she is picked up by a man in a luxury car who calls himself Harris. Mallon has grown to distrust men, but Harris’s calm gray eyes allow her to relax her guard. When she sees where they have arrived, however, she starts to regret her carelessness. The place is practically a ruin, and there’s no other house around. Mallon, recalling all her nightmares, is constantly fearful, but there is one thing she doesn’t yet know—her encounter with Harris is the ray of light that will cut through the darkness of her life…