Iris Chapel and her five sisters are heirs to the Chapel firearms fortune. They live in a luxurious Victorian mansion with a distant, workaholic father and a mentally unstable mother who believes their house is cursed. The sisters grew up relying only on each other. They yearn to escape the eerie fairy tale of their childhood and enter the wider world, but for young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is to get married. However, it soon becomes clear that for the sisters, marriage is tantamount to death. When the older sister gets married, tragedy strikes . The bride mysteriously dies the very next day, shocking her family and town. But this is only the beginning of a chain of disasters that will make every woman wonder if her true love will kill her too. Only Iris, the second oldest, finds a way to escape, but will she be able to escape her family curse forever?