The Others: Plot Summary

A mother, Grace, lives in an old decrepit mansion with her two children, Anne and Nicholas, awaiting for her husband to return from the Second World War. The families servants "vanished" without any word so Grace hires three new ones to look after the children and the house. The children have a health condition, Photosensitivity, which is a disease that makes them allergic to light. In order to protect the children, Grace has specific rules including keeping all doors locked at all times and keeping the windows covered and having no light stronger than candle light in a room. It becomes evident that the family is not alone in the house. Anne sees the other people in the house. Grace is skeptical and believes Anne is making things up, until she starts to notice another presence in the house as well. When all the curtains are missing one day Grace snaps, and has the servants leave, in a desperate search through the house Grace finds a funeral photograph of the three servants. The children are found by the others and Grace has to "go talk to them", where we find out that Grace and the children are dead also. The intruders happen to be family that was moving into the house. Grace had killed her children and herself and are stuck in a kind of limbo.