A group of young people who are helping their friend clean out his his late grandfather's farmhouse are terrorized by a living scarecrow who has his own stake in his dead creator's property.
On the night of his untimely and mysterious death in post Civil War New Orleans, world chess champion PAUL MORPHY'S exciting and tortured life is reviewed. Known as the greatest chess player in the modern era, Morphy was a multidimensional genius prodigy.