A teenage couple of disparate backgrounds experiences their first romance. She's a girl from a permissive California family; he's from a conservative midwestern family and has moved in with his sister on the West Coast after the death of his parents.
Una cantante de música country (Linda Haynes) es acusada de un asesinato y encarcelada. El Doctor Kline (Geoffrey Lewis) la somete a una terrible sesión de tortura con la intención de borrarle todas sus memorias mediante un lavado de cerebro, para quitarle sus supuestos instintos asesinos.