Hannah returns from school one day to find that her grandma has gotten sick and is in the hospital. Hannah’s mom seems irritated with the little girl who doesn’t quite understand what is going on. Hannah goes to the attic and sees a bust that Grandma used to use to make dresses and Hannah puts a blue dress on the form and hugs it. Hannah asks her mom later if they can go to the craft store, but her mother says no. Hannah decides that she wants to make a pillowcase for Grandma and so she starts to sew one with the fabric from her Grandma's hope chest, but ends up stitching some of the fabric in her finger. She hugs the form of Grandma for comfort, but accidentally gets blood on the dress. She decides to wash the dress in the bathtub downstairs. She leaves the dress in the bathtub and decides to get some jewelry from Grandma’s bedroom. However, the box that has the jewelry in it plays a song which causes Hannah’s mother to walk in from the other room. Hannah hides in the closet and hears her mom break the jewelry box. Hannah’s mom screams from downstairs after seeing the dress in the bathtub. Hannah comes down and thinks the dress looks like the body of Grandma. Hannah’s mom berates Hannah for putting it there and asks why she was in the attic. She says she was making her a pillow case and Hannah’s mother says that that’s a stupid idea. After her mother leaves for work, Hannah dresses Grandma’s figure in a black dress. Her mom comes home and moves into Grandma’s room and makes Hannah clean the bathroom. Hannah returns to the attic later and stitches a head for Grandma’s figure out of muslin and sews gloves to the sleeves of the dress to look like hands.  The next morning Hannah finds breakfast ready for her and sees Grandma’s figure lying in the Grandma's bed. Hannah decides not to go to school, realizing that she didn’t give Grandma a mouth. She cuts a hole in the mouth and then ties a ribbon in for a tongue. The figure still can’t speak so Hannah decides to read in Grandma’s encyclopedias about what makes a person talk. She sees she needs to make vocal cords, but isn’t sure how. Her mother comes home and yells at her for missing school that day. Hannah wants to run but can’t and then her mother throws a plate at her, hitting her face. Hannah rushes to the attic and hides in the Hope Chest. When she wakes up her face hurts and the figure of Grandma is gone. She goes downstairs and screams when she sees the form lying in the bathtub. Hannah’s mother sees the figure too and beats Hannah for putting it together. Hannah scrubs any trace of the figure from the bathroom and keeps it upstairs where her mother won’t see it. Her mother goes to the bathroom and says that Hannah stinks and that she needs to take a bath. Hannah says no and her mother gets angry, but suddenly the figure of Grandma appears in the doorway and stuffs the mother’s mouth with fabric. She keeps stuffing until the mother is completely filled up and then the figure sews the mother’s mouth shut. Later Hannah grabs Grandma’s monthly check from the mailbox and asks her if she wants to go to the craft store. Grandma says yes.