James, Henry

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

An heiress favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, her proud and pitiless father, and her fortune-hunting suitor are portrayed through shifting relationships and a series of confrontations.

Presents Henry James's classic tale in which a governess believes her two charges, ten-year-old Miles and eight-year-old Flora, are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants.

A young governess's awareness of "visitations" by dead members of the household leads to tragedy.