After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose.

A young governess is hired by a man to look after his niece and nephew at their family country house after they fall into his care. Soon after arriving at the Bly estate, she begins to experience strange occurrences and a grim history starts to unravel.

A young woman gets a job as a nanny to care for two young children at a manor. There, she discovers that things there are not as she thought and start to uncover a grim past and she must do all she can to save the ones she loves most before it's too late.