Opening in 19th-century Australia and moving to England in the 1980s, this is a story of a young, beautiful convict woman who drives her goaler to madness and suicide. A 100 years later the tallow image of herself, fashioned during her last days, perpetuates the curse she left on his descendants.
Rebecca Norman is condemned to die, and as she awaits her execution, she fashions two tallow dolls. A century later, one of the dolls falls into the hands of Cathy Slater, and Cathy begins to change. Only one person can help her - an old woman who has waited with dread for the evil to resurface.
