When a boy finally gets noticed by the pretty girl in his high school class, Sally, he enthusiastically begins a friendship with her. The pair grow extremely close over the course of the year, bonding over their love of music. Though they consider themselves fans of new-age music, they can't deny their love of the Beatles. He takes her to his favorite record shop in England and they listen to much of Kate Bush's new 1980 album. One day, she visits him at his home and they quickly get to talking about the house across the garden—one which belongs to John Lenon, and thus, has been nicknamed the Beatles house. Sally insists that they get a closer look, the two using a ladder to climb over the fence. After finding an unlocked door, they step inside, much to the boy's dismay, however, he goes along with it, so long as he can be with Sally. Exploring the house of one of their favorite artists, the two are mysticized by it. Since John Lenon ended up despising the house, he never actually moved in when he bought it back in the 60s; so, the house has gone unused, completely preserved in all its 60s grandeur, with floral wallpaper and other decorations of the era. It appears almost like a dollhouse, to them. Coming across a hole in the ceiling, Sally uses a step ladder to climb into a tiny room that has no connecting doors. The boy climbs the ladder, though because of how small the room is, he refrains from stepping inside. As Sally bends down, they share their first kiss. This is interrupted when he falls off the ladder, landing in a pile of newspapers. Reading them, he discovers that this house is the infamous location of several sex crimes a man committed against children. When Lenon bought the house, news of him purchasing the sex scandal house spread like wildfire, but the story died down long before the teenagers' time. Sally is suddenly yanked out of sight, and though he calls for her, the boy gets no answer. Because the step ladder broke when he fell, he pulls himself up and into the room, though he finds nothing but paintings lining every wall. He frantically runs about the house searching for Sally with no success, until he peers out one window to find her face down outside the front door, as though someone pushed her out there. He races to her, pulls her up, and the two hobble back to his house as quickly as possible, though Sally has great trouble walking, let alone running. As he turns back, he spots a black figure slowly closing a door, tauntingly waving at him before letting it shut. Sally's clothes are quickly soaking with blood from somewhere, so she is rushed to the hospital in an ambulance, accompanied by the boy. Upon first glance of the boy, the doctors quickly admit him as well. Seriously shaken up, the hospital opts to keep him for a couple of weeks in the psychiatric ward. Sally, on the other hand, remains in the hospital for much longer, and the boy never sees her again. Though he gave the doctors and police a much more palatable version of the story, wherein Sally simply fell off the ladder, once he gets home, the boy tells his father everything. Soon after, the Beatles house goes up in flames, and the very next morning, as the boy and his father listen to the radio, they learn that the night prior, John Lenon was shot, dead.