In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced. Starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, and Ethel Barrymore.
A beautiful young newlywed arrives at the palatial estate of her brilliant scientist husband. Ensconced in modernist luxury, she has seemingly everything she could want. But what is behind the locked door that he has forbidden her to enter?