It's 1746 and the Laird of Ulver maroons his wife and four daughters on remote Ulver Island after she fails to give him a male heir on the fifth attempt. On the island, the youngest girl turns murderess, after meeting Satan himself in a cave. Modern day, and no one has lived on Ulver since a couple threw themselves onto the rocks in 1948. Frank Ingram is too busy mourning his wife, and moves in anyway. Life is hunky dory until a woman with her four daughters mysteriously arrive out of nowhere.