Based on a true story, Clara is a horror film about a 13-year old girl walled up in the family home by her father in the mid 19th-century. In modern times the haunted villa is inherited by Helen Ludovisi, the American niece of the owner. Helen and her boyfriend fly in from the States to restore Villa Clara. Before long the house's insidious secrets, ghosts and its mysterious caretaker, David, terrify all who enter its portals.