Dr. Sharon Francis is a young resident at

Adams Memorial Hospital in Washing-

ton, D.C., where her mother is a schizo-

phrenic patient. Sharon s mother has this

crazy fear that other patients on the

psychiatric ward are being persuaded to

sign themselves out and are then being

kidnapped. To pacify her mother, Dr.

Francis checks on one of these "disap-

peared" patients. Then one of her own

patients is missing, and she begins some

serious investigating.

Once Sharon starts asking questions

around the hospital, accidents begin

happening to her. First someone tries to

run her down as she bicycles home; then

she is attacked, but escapes; finally she is

knocked out and drugged, and finds

herself a patient in the mental ward under

the care of the hated Dr. Valois, who is sure

Sharonhas finally succumbed to schizo-

phrenia, too.

Neither Mark Pendleton, handsome

policeman and son of one of Adams

Memorial s most respected doctors, nor

Jeff Harrod, the charming young resident

in love with her, are able to persuade Dr.

Valois that Sharon is not delusional.