England, 1876 After a surreptitious return from India with his young wife, who had contracted leprosy, Doctor Rupert Whitaker (A colonel in the British Army) locks her away in a bedroom at his estate in Devon. Driven by guilt, Doctor Whitaker takes the care of his wife to task while keeping her father and brother at bay and the knowledge of her illness from everyone. As the multitudes of ghosts from his past return in hideous forms, and his wife rots away in the darkness of her room, Doctor Whitaker begins to fall into madness, which ultimately leads to his demise and the destruction of Whitaker Hall.