While on vacation on the island of Crete, Lorna meets and falls in love with Ricky, a water sports instructor. He is also attracted to Lorna, but a strange shadow sometimes appears in the black eyes of a handsome, strong man. Ricky tells the girl that as a child, after the death of his parents in a car accident, he lived for several months in the southwest of England with an old, half-crazed aunt. Now her cottage is being inherited by him. Ricky wants to show the cottage to Lorna. It seems her dreams are coming true. She decides to spend her honeymoon in this quiet corner, but in the cottage, in the garden, it’s as if some invisible evil lives, more and more threatening her happiness...