Set 10 years after the events from Flowers in the Attic, in the year 1970 in South Carolina, the surviving Dollanganger children, Cathy, Chris, and Carrie, attend the funeral of Paul Sheffield, a kind doctor who took them in and provided them the means to achieve their dreams. However, still haunted by the death of their younger brother, Cory and the betrayal of their mother, they are unable to move past their memories in the attic, particularly Cathy, who still wonders how a mother could betray her own children.