Master

Gail Bishop becomes the newly-appointed and first Black master of Ancaster, an elite university in New England. The students at the school believe it is cursed by the ghost of Margaret Millett, who was accused of witchcraft and hanged nearby. The dorm of freshman Jasmine Moore, room 302, was once occupied in 1965 by Louisa Weeks, the first Black graduate who committed suicide by hanging. Jasmine starts having nightmares and begins to believe that her English professor Liv Beckman is purposely giving her bad grades. She files a dispute, which impacts Liv's application for tenure. Jasmine is attacked by a presence that plants a noose on her door, burns a cross, and causes her to fall out of a window. Her best friend Amelia begins to resent her and eventually drops out. Jasmine tells Gail about the presence, which Gail believes is a racist student. Jasmine is found a few days later dead in her room, hanged. Esther Bickert, Liv's mother, informs Gail that Liv was born White, but that she turned Black and changed her birth name after she was possessed by the devil. Liv denies these claims and tells Gail that she was actually the daughter of a Black man. Gail criticizes the all-white faculty staff after realizing that she has not been the school's master, but its maid. Gail notices that history has repeated itself with no changes to Ancaster's diversity and she resigns from her position.