A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

玛丽拉（伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰）是一位在行业内声名显赫的电影明星，在一场宴会上，一起死亡事件的发生让她陷入了危险的境地。原来，死者死于一杯毒酒，而这杯毒酒本应被玛丽拉饮下。警方迅速介入了调查，随着线索的展开，玛丽拉的丈夫杰森（洛克·哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰）成为了终点怀疑对象。
不幸的是，事情并没有就此终结，神秘的匿名电话，诡异的敲诈字条，在巨大的压力之下，玛丽拉的精神迅速濒临着崩溃的边缘。杰森真的是凶手吗？又是谁对玛丽拉有着如此的深仇大恨呢？聪明的马普尔小姐（安吉拉·兰斯伯瑞 Angela Lansbury 饰）看出了其中的端倪，她能够顺利解决这一案件吗？

Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.