Wish Baby is a savage fairytale set in a recession landscape.

A troubled young black teenager Maxine (Tiana Benjamin) rescues an eccentric old lady Eve (Fenella Fielding) from a mugging by a mixed-race gang and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a Wishbaby

With Eve's help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, but this action releases Eve's dead Governess from the grave and unleashes a violent storm of supernatural activity. Her older brother Colin (rapper Doc Brown) is gradually drawn into this dangerous situation and must finally face his estranged mother in a brutal fight to the death.