Nine-year-old Matthew finds a key to a magical world at the bottom of his grandmother's garden where he encounters the mystical Shadow people.。A young nanny travels from England to Mallorca to care for two orphaned English children. At first enchanted by the children and their estate, she is then alarmed by their strange behavior and the mysterious events that occur. She doggedly follows her instincts and the truth that slowly, painfully emerges results in everyone's undoing, including her own. -。