On the run after killing a policeman, a trio of robbers get into a car crash and are tended to by a local traveller. They kill her to keep her quiet but unfortunately for them, her death is quickly connected to that of the police officer.
As the robbers begin dying one by one, seemingly victims of the dead woman's curse, Danny, the person who actually stabbed the traveller fortune teller, takes up with Jane Antrobus, a gangster's moll.
After a body is found in Sophie's attic, she's plunged into a great depression, she asks her young teenage helpers for assistance. The killer strikes again.