Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave the mental institution where they were put as young children after they killed their parents.

A remake of 1941's "Ladies in Retirement" has Stella Stevens playing companion to a wealthy, loony widow and bringing her brother and sister to live with them after their are released from a psychiatric institution where they had been since brutally murdering their parents years before. Now the skeletons that she worked so hard to keep hidden are ready to tumble out of her closet.—alfiehitchie

When Ellen's younger brother and sister were only 4 and 6 years old, they were found standing over the bloody corpses of their parents. Twelve years later, they are released from a juvenile mental institution into Ellen's custody. Unwilling to endanger her relationship with her fiance' or her position as a live-in assistant to his wealthy, eccentric stepmother, Ellen spins a precarious web of lies around her family's troubled past.—Molly Rose Steed