A Los Angeles speech pathologist is assigned to the case of a presumably mentally-ill woman who speaks in gibberish that turns out to be Old English. When the woman disappears, deciphering her mysterious writing leads the pathologist to wonder if she has stumbled across a time traveler.

Two elderly sisters who have lived in near isolation finally leave their house and enter society after one sister is tricked by the king of their medieval kingdom into leaving their secluded palace. The king transforms one sister into a beautiful young woman, but the process goes terribly wrong when he attempts to beautify the other sister as well. As both sisters are tortured and ridiculed by the townspeople for the way that they look, they quickly regret their decision to ever leave the safety of their home and fall into despair at their equally botched transformations.