A sophisticated American family, the Otis, buys the old English castle of the Canterville. The old owner then tells them that in the mansion he inhabits since time immemorial the wrathful ghost of Lord Simon Canterville, who killed his wife and whose body mysteriously disappeared afterwards. Far from being intimidated, the tenants buy the castle with the ghost included, and end up subjecting the poor anachronistic spectrum, which ends up being a toy and victim of the two terrible children of the family. The ghost is depressed and asks for help from a girl to help him die.