One Christmas Eve, young Heidi is visited by the angel of death who tells her she is going to die the following day. Before she dies, she does a few great deeds which push the tips of the scale so much, as few souls have ever done. Heidi is given a second chance at life. However, she must leave her village and go into the forest where she will live out her final days. When she gets there she sees a Gingerbread castle. Outside there is a woman who is to be put to death by an altar, and a man holding a knife to her throat. But, the man mysteriously disappears and the woman is spared. The woman walks away further into the forest and disappears. Heidi goes into the castle and begins living there, as instructed by the angel of death. However, as days go by Heidi's good deed seems to be incomplete. Now she has to do her best before she loses the very person she did the good deed for, the only person she'd regret dying and leaving. But, still, are things really as they seem inside the Gingerbread castle? Heidi might scream the most blood curdling of screams if she only knew the truth!