
In 1988 in Charleston, high school best friends Abby and Gretchen have been inseparable since a roller-rink birthday party in fourth grade, but after a night out goes wrong, Gretchen starts acting strangely, and Abby comes to believe her friend is possessed.
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After their parents die, Louise has to go home to Charleston and work with her estranged brother Mark to clear out and sell the family house, which is full of their mother's puppets and dolls and does not want to be sold.

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