Merricat Blackwood, her older sister Constance, and their Uncle Julian live in a manor home separate from a nearby village. Constance has not left the home or the estate since the events of six years prior when the rest of the family died from poisoning and she was tried and acquitted of the crime. Julian is wheelchair bound and he spends his days reliving and writing about the day of that gruesome event. Only Merricat has contact with the outside world as she is tasked with going to the vill...