A divorced 16 year old girl reflects on how the sexual trauma she experienced as a child perpetuates in her relationships with men throughout her life, forcing herself to grow up too early and leaving her starved for affection and love.

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

When a group of adults get stranded in the middle of nowhere, they seek shelter from the rain in a secluded cabin, only to be cast into a horror show created by a child's imagination.

An extended visit from a relative leaves a young boy terrified in his own home.

A housewife violently assaults an unsuspecting intruder with mental images of torture.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

When a series of mysterious deaths threaten a small town, two young boys discover that the culprit is even more terrifying than they had imagined.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

When the father of a college-aged girl, who works in a mail center and has taken to stealing her classmates' mail, comes to visit, he sexually assaults his daughter, as he has been doing since she was a young girl.