When a young couple inherit a farm, they are determined to turn it into a success, but strange supernatural forces soon intervene, threatening their marriage and their lives.

A brilliant young couple inherit the farm and are determined to start a new life together. But their presence in this isolated corner of England starts to unleash strange, unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that will start to threaten their marriage.—BBC America

Colin Morgan plays the lead in this drama series as Nathan Appleby, a Victorian psychologist, while Charlotte Spencer stars as his young wife, Charlotte Appleby. Set in Somerset, England, in the year 1894, the story follows the couple as they stand to inherit the family estate when Nathan's mother passes away. They decide to move into the old house and begin a new life together on the farm, but not everything is as it seems. Isolated in the English countryside, the pair encounters some menacing paranormal phenomena that threaten to tear their marriage apart.