A troubled young black teenager Maxine rescues an eccentric old lady Eve from an unhappy slap by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a WISHBABY. With Eves help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, inadvertently releasing Eves dead Governess from her astral prison and unleashing a storm of supernatural activity. Her older brother Colin is gradually drawn into the dangerous situation created by the Little King and must finally face his own mother in a brutal fight to the death.