Gas City, Indiana: In the year 1901, a notorious con man by the name of William "Slick Willie" Scofield courts and marries a local wealthy widow for the sole purpose of obtaining funding to start his own oil exploration company. Now comfortably housed within his wife's lavish three-story mansion, the unscrupulous new husband becomes greatly irritated by the nightly chanting of an old curse by his wife's strange housekeeper, the Miami Indian known...