When six-year-old Sophie is orphaned guardianship is assigned to her aunt Annabelle. The two go in to a big, spooky, Victorian house at which Sophie unearths a locked wooden box having an odd symbol. Desperate to attach to her niece Annabelle pries the lock open revealing a gorgeous music box. Whenever the music box replayed it frightening and is wrapped melody plays more, appealing Sophie more. Annabelle seeks the assistance of clairvoyant and a young child psychologist who soon discover the music box is owned by an evil spirit that seeks to infect Sophie and destroy Annabelle After the music box starts impacting health and Sophie's behavior. Annabelle finds herself rushing against the attempts to defeat the spirit of the music box and While the haunting intensifies time begins to come to an end plays.