Lonely and proudly the Il-Marsh mansion rises above the endless salt marshes. Arthur Kipps - a young solicitor - comes to the funeral of the mistress of the house. It would seem like a routine job - to put in order the papers of the last representative of an old family. A seemingly unremarkable woman in black, whom Arthur Kipps encountered in church at a memorial service, and then - in the cemetery, during the burial. But why, in response to Arthur’s questions, does everyone, as if by agreement, claim that they have not seen the stranger in black?..