June Buckridge is 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays on a popular daytime serial. The widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is a predatory lesbian who is pursuing Childie, June's flat mate.

In flashback from a ‘Rebecca’-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly attracted to Jeff, who’s being plagued by unexplainable accidents, major and minor. Bad luck, persecution…or paranoia? Warned that Jeff could be dangerous, Ellen fears that he’s in danger, as the menacing atmosphere darkens.

A mysterious, man-sized monster kills a fisherman at sea. A Biologist and a Federal Agent discover a man's body, washed up on the beach and covered with radiation burns.