This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

A mysterious stranger with a gun and a bullet wound turns up at the house of an old woman who is a recluse, and who unexpectedly welcomes him as her first visitor in 30 years. A relationship develops between the two, as the man becomes the son the woman lost years ago and she becomes the mother he never had.

The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Helena, a stage actress is confronted by Ferenc, a Hungarian who left her 15 years before to return to Europe, where he now runs a state-subsidized theater. Though he has brought along his current mistress, he wants to come back to Helena.

Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and the police had no clue with him.