约翰（比利·查平 Billy Chapin 饰）和佩尔（萨莉·简·布鲁斯 Sally Jane Bruce 饰）是一对苦命的兄妹，他们的父亲本（彼得·格雷夫斯 Peter Graves 饰）因抢劫和被判处绞刑。在被逮捕前，本把赃款藏在了佩尔的布娃娃里，并让他们承诺永远不泄露这个秘密。本的狱友哈利（罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰）是一个败絮其中的牧师，偶然间他得知了这笔赃款的去向，出狱后，哈利找到了本的妻子薇拉（谢利·温特斯 Shelley Winters 饰），他想方设法得到了薇拉的芳心成为了约翰和佩尔的继父，就此，哈利的阴谋开始了。哈利杀死了对于他来说毫无价值的薇拉，将他弃尸河底，又对兄妹两人威逼利诱想要套出赃款的秘密。在所有努力都没有成果之际，恼羞成怒的哈利露出的本来面目。约翰和佩尔划着小船逃离了哈利，他们一路流浪来到了一个陌生的小镇，专门收养弃婴的善良妇人理查德（丽莲·吉许 Lillian Gish 饰）收留了兄妹两，然而平静的生活没过多久，哈利罪恶的脚步也踏上了这块纯洁的土地。

A writer who discovers an unquiet spirit inhabits a remote farmhouse.

To the outside world Joanne is just a book-store owner, but the Conspiracy knows different. She's dangerous. She's a bellwether a quiet leader who is well on her way to being her whole self. When they kidnap her to break her to make her conform, they discover that Joanne is something so much more than even she ever knew. Joanne is a feminist, one-room, one-character elevated genre thriller. It is a modern rite of passage story which most women have to go through to become a whole human being How does one be oneself in the face of massive misogyny and hatred (both overt and institutionalized). It is also the world's first one-person film (a movie with only one on-screen character) that features a woman.

当一艘外星飞船降落在附近时，杰西卡醒来。在派遣一对年轻夫妇后，外星人以新派遣的年轻人的身份出现。杰西卡和她的占有欲强烈的情人约瑟芬邀请“安德斯”进来当他看起来受伤的时候。很快，杰西卡开始怀疑约瑟芬的专横跋扈，更多地依靠外星人的支持，但他在地球上的目的仍不清楚。