미국의 멜로즈라는 지방에 첨단의 과학적 시스템으로 운영이 되는 이색 휴양지가 문을 연다. 개척시대의 서부, 중세의 성, 로마의 유원지가 그대로 재현이 된 그곳은 곧 대중적인 휴양지로 모든 사람들의 이목을 끈다. 틀에 박힌 생활에 환멸을 느끼고 있던 사람들이 멜로즈로 찾아와 휴가를 만끽하고, 변호사인 마틴과 블레인도 일상 생활의 스트레스를 풀기 위해 웨스트 월드에 도착하게 된다. 처음에는 컴퓨터로 조작되는 인간들과의 신나는 총격전과 수많은 미녀들과의 색다른 즐거움 빠져 있었으나 시일이 지나자 이상한 현상들을 발견하게 된다. 어떤 힘에 통제를 받는 인조인간들이 반란을 일으킨것이다.
After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.
Rugged cowgirl, Nell Hagen sets out to retaliate for the hanging of her father Judd, who ruled their valley with an iron fist before the natives revolted. She is accompanied by her brothers, Ritt and Kirby, a hump-backed half-wit, and their sensuous cousin Julie Ann. The family then robs a bank, kills two tellers, enacts their revenge before heading for the border where their own family drama gets really mean and nasty.
The plot concerns a Key West charter boat captain persuaded to help smuggle Cuban refugees to Florida. When a refugee is killed while escaping, he loses his license and becomes involved with a married woman, whose jealous husband wants him dead.
