Ægteparret Adelaide og Gabe Wilson tager deres to børn med på sommerferie til Adelaides barndomshjem i Santa Cruz. Men et traume fra Adelaides fortid trænger sig på. Kort efter ankomsten opdager familien, at fire ubudne gæster har indfundet sig ved huset. Og der er noget sært velkendt over de fire rødklædte skikkelser, der nægter at forlade stedet.
Persona er Ingmar Bergman, når han er bedst. Filmen er åben for et hav af fortolkninger, og professionelle psykologer står i kø for at rose den og fortælle, hvad de har lært af den. Bibi Andersson er en ung sygeplejerske, som får til opgave at tage sig af en skuespillerinde (Liv Ullmann), der tilsyneladende kun fejler ét: hun nægter at give ord fra sig. På trods af énvejskommunikationen flyder sygeplejerskens personlighed langsomt sammen med patientens.
The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.
A young hitman is asked to prove himself by killing an innocent woman.
A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence.
A man experiences strange phenomena after arriving home in his car.
The chasm through which light bleeds , bleeds out of proportion with bright spectral flickers flaming the trees abrading out the tissues with excruciating vigour gaining momentum