After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets.

Gloria Grahame
as Mrs. Deere

Melody Patterson
as Ellie Masters

Milton Selzer
as Harold Mullins

Vic Tayback
as Calvin Carruthers

Len Lesser
as Tom Kredge

Terri Messina
as Bunch

Ronald Taft
as Walter

Dennis Christopher
as Pete

Peter Armstrong
as Ernest

Maggie Corey
as Jennifer