Alexander Armsworth and his family move into an antebellum architecture Louisiana plantations in the American South. Alexander's mother and sister fall in love with the mansion and become set on restoring it to its former glory, but Alexander is both frustrated at the amount of chores he is expected to do and unsettled by mysterious, spooky lights he sees around the property. He also meets his new neighbor, Blossom Culp, a superstitious girl raised by her spiritualism grandmother. In spite of Blossom's strange and sometimes annoying ways, she becomes a loyal friend.