Niles McMaster

In 1961, divorced Catholic couple Dom and Catherine Spages' life is upended when their teenage daughter Alice is suspected of her younger sister Karen's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of stabbings follow.

In the Theatre of the Macabre in New York, Sardu and his assistants present a show involving the torture and mutilation of young women. The audience assumes it is just an act, but the torture is real, as are the deaths.