After being blinded in a horse riding accident, Sarah (Mia Farrow) visits her uncle's stately home. Out on a date with her boyfriend, Steve (Norman Eshley), she escapes the fate of her relatives (Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey, and Diane Grayson), who are murdered, along with the gardener, at their home by a psychotic killer. Sarah returns from her date and spends the night in the house, unaware that three of her family members' corpses are strewn about the house.
Sarah eventually discovers the bodies. She also discovers a bracelet containing an engraved name on it, which she correctly assumes belongs to the killer. The killer – whose face is only shown to the audience in the film’s last scene (otherwise he is shown almost exclusively from the knees down, wearing jeans and distinctive leather boots) – returns, searching for the lost bracelet. He discovers Sarah, who manages to flee on horseback. Sarah encounters a family of gypsies and shows them the bracelet. They see the name "Jack" inscribed on it, and one of the gypsies, the head of the family called Tom (Michael Elphick) concludes his brother, Jack, must be responsible, as he dated one of the murdered women from the estate. In an effort to save Jack, the family head pretends to take Sarah to the police but, instead, locks her in a secluded shed. His plan is to then round up his family and flee the area.
Sarah escapes from the shed and is found by Steve, out searching for her. She tells him all she knows. Steve and his men leave Sarah at his house to recuperate, and they begin a search for the killer, whom they assume is a gypsy. They come across the two gypsy brothers Tom and Jack intending to assault them when a frantic Jack explains that his brother suspected him of being the killer because of the name on the bracelet. However Jack insists he had nothing to do with it. They look at the bracelet again and see the name on it is actually "Jacko". Steve, upon learning the killer's real name, hurries back to his house, where it is revealed that one of his workers, left behind to guard Sarah, is Jacko (Paul Nicholas). At the house, Jacko, still searching for the bracelet, attempts to drown Sarah while she is taking a bath, but Steve returns just in time to rescue her.
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