A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

A tyrannical landlady in Hemet, California lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Ruth will stop at nothing to play the part of the villain, even if it means casting her friend Lucille as her victim.