Replacing Elizabeth

William and Sally Smith were a rich couple with four children living in the upscale part of the upscalesuburban New York county of Westchester.One daythey have a tragedy in the family when their five-year-old daughter; Elizabethis struck and killed by a speeding car. Devastatedthe Smiths decide to adopt another child;a sort of replacement for the daughter that they lost.They go to a local orphanage and when they find this little girl being forced into slave-laborthe Smiths are repulsed by this and decide to take this poorhapless waif into their home and though this little girlwho they learn was named Carol Anne by her birth-parentsstarted out as a replacement for their recently deceased daughter Carol Anne earns her own place in the familynot as Elizabeth's replacement but as the seventh member of the family and Bill and Sally's fifth child.