 She learns that her father, from whom she has been separated since her toddler years, has died just as she is to be reunited with her eccentric family and inherit her father's fabled hoard of gold.The group drives for hours to reach an ugly and sinister Victorian house called the Black House at nightfall.The Black House, where her father died, is uninhabitable—the group meets the family and beds down in a small stone house next door.