Henry James' chilling ghost story takes the stage in this adaptation by by Jeffrey Hatcher. In The Turn of the Screw, an impressionable young woman is hired by a wealthy older man to look after two orphaned children at a remote country estate on the condition that she is forbidden to contact the man under any circumstances. As the governess settles into the lonely home, she begins to experience a series of unexplained events which lead her to believe that the children are being haunted and in grave danger. But is the danger real or imagined?