Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), una joven e ingenua enfermera oriunda del Sur, llega a una polvorienta población de California para trabajar en una residencia de ancianos. Una vez allí, toma enseguida como modelo a Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), una joven sofisticada adicta a las revistas de moda. Millie busca una compañera de piso, y Pinky se va a vivir con ella.

Una presencia maligna infecta a una mujer que ha viajado junto a su marido al Oeste, a la frontera, para establecerse allí. La paranoia comienza a apropiarse de su mente, desatando una espiral de locura y terror.

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

Little Maurice Dumont lives with his mother in a village in the mountains. His twin brother Jacques died at birth. But Maurice told that he could speak with Jacques. The doctor, Dr. Prevost and her husband, who teaches at the local school, are of the opinion that his mother's strict upbringing is not good for Maurice. One day, they discover strange injuries on him. At the same time some women of the village plan to use Maurice's ability to communicate with the dead to contact their dead relatives. But this is not a good idea ...

Celebrating a birthday, a young boy and his exhausted babysitter wait for his unusually late parents.

Heavily pregnant Hatsumi and her sister Chika visit a shrine to pray for a safe birth, but in a tragic turn of events, Hatsumi tumbles down the stairs and loses the baby. 6 months later, Chika's baby is safely born and when Hatsumi visits Chika she find out that Chika named her daughter Aoi, which happened to be the name Hatsumi chose for her own baby...