Jenna purchases an old doll dressed in red velvet at a neighbor's garage sale as a birthday gift for her sister, but as soon as she brings the doll home, strange things begin to happen and she wonders if the doll might be haunted.
The stage is set for a ghostly encounter when Kaye's family runs off the road in a blizzard on Christmas Eve 2008, at the sight of a perfect pine tree chosen by young Lillian in 1938.
On a bike outing to the abandoned houses by the old cement mill, Delsie and her friend Todd discover one of the houses is not empty--and a ghost dog haunts the area.