Seven-year-old Marushka (Florence Hoath) grows up in Prague, Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, raised more by her relatives than her zealous, society-building mother.

Henry James' 1898 novel "The Turn of the Screw" inspired this ghost story, in which a governess (Valerie Bertinelli) comes to believe that her two orphaned charges, ages 8 and 10, are possessed by ...