Mr. and Mrs. Allen invite a young, naive, never leaving a village home, Catherine Morland to visit them in Bath. There she is busy with the eccentric general Tinley, his son Henry Tinley, his daughter Elenor Tinley. Catherine is invited to the general’s family estate - Northanger Abbey, where the girl, a lover of Gothic novels, imagines the sinister secrets and horrors surrounding the general’s family. The reality will be much more prosaic.