A reverenda Jack Brooks e sua filha, Flo, se mudam para Chapel Croft, uma vila onde duas garotas adolescentes despareceram e as "garotas em chamas", fantasmas de duas crianças, assombram a capela.

A hapless UN employee discovers that the agency he works for is hiding a gateway to a parallel dimension that's in a cold war with our own, and where his other self is a top spy. The war slowly heats up thanks to spies from both sides.