The book is a horror story about a little girl called Alice, who lives in a graveyard with her mother. The first chapter tell us some of the daily activities of this girl. It begins with the image of a molehill looked from the perspective of Alice. There was an ugly man beside it. He looked at her and grinned while he took out a poisoned-coated worm from a beans’ can and then took it into the molehill. After that, Allice went to pick up the withered flowers from the headstones and tossed them on the top of a big pile of leaves and branches. When she did it, she looked behind her and got astonished and puzzled by something. She run away, but something tripped her, and she tumble forward. She stood up swiftly and reach a field where was a big tree, whose base was a light that was progressively dazzling into a holy radiance.