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What is evil? The scene is a small Southern town where Colonel and Christine Penmark live with their daughter, Rhoda. On the surface Rhoda is a sweet, charming eight-year-old, full of old-fashioned graces, loved by her parents, admired by all her elders. But Rhoda's mother has an uneasy feeling about her. When one of Rhoda's schoolmates drowns mysteriously at a picnic, Mrs. Penmark is alarmed. For the boy who drowned was the one who had won the penmanship medal that Rhoda felt she deserved. When a series of strange and tragic events occur, suspicion and treachery point in some strangely unlikely directions, challenging the ties that bind a family together (or tear them apart).