

The young nurse meets the patients, including a lobotomized and childish man named Sam ( Bill McGhee) who enjoys popsicles and his plastic toy boat, a nymphomaniac and schizophrenic named Allyson (Betty Chandler), an emotionally dependent woman named Jennifer (Harryette Warren), an octogenarian woman named Mrs. Masters begrudgingly allows her to settle in. Geraldine Masters (Anne MacAdams), who is greeted by Charlotte Beale (Rosie Holotik), a pretty young nurse who informs Dr. The only remaining doctor appears to be Dr. The patient kills her by crushing her head in the nurse's suitcase.

The shaken nurse returns inside to finish packing, where she is attacked by Harriett (Camilla Carr), a patient who accuses her of stealing her "baby" (actually a plastic doll).

Cameron, known as Judge (Gene Ross) accidentally lands the axe in Dr. Unfortunately, in the process of therapy (which involves chopping wood with an axe), the crazed former magistrate, Oliver W. After a troubling incident in which a patient threatens her life, she decides to retire and goes out to visit the chief doctor, Dr. The film begins with an elderly nurse in Stephens Sanitarium making her rounds.

The film is set in Stephens Sanitarium, a secluded rural mental health institute whose chief doctor believes that the best way to deal with insanity is to allow the patients to freely act out their realities in the hopes that they will snap out of it, so to speak.
