Emanuelle Richmond Morgan (Lasri) is an African American supermodel married to basketball star Fred Morgan (Percy Hogan). She had visited Beirut in July 1976 and fell in the centre of the Lebanese Civil War. She has been going through a state of amnesia since then, kept at a mental institution in Manhattan. Dr. Paul Gardner (Infanti) who is in charge of the clinic takes a special interest in Richmond's case and begins to personally investigate her past, starting with the photographer John Farmer (Franco Cremonini) who was with her in Beirut.
Several children play on a farm while a tea party is prepared. As the farmer drives his tractor through the field where the children are playing, While her friends follow behind, Kim jumps up onto the trailer, pretends the tractor is a train, and shoots at it. The tractor makes a turn, and she falls off and is run over, to the horror of the other children. At their school, the teacher removes Kim's name tag from a storage peg.
Ravi, a progressive schoolteacher in a small village helps fight an epidemic by getting his students inoculated. He incurs the wrath of local witchdoctor in the process. The witchdoctor gets his chance when Rekha, the pregnant wife of Ravi comes to him after the death of their child. He demands a human sacrifice. While Rekha later dies in childbirth, Ravi is accused of superstitious activity and is ostracized by the villagers. He is, eventually cleared, however.
La paix d'un couvent est troublé par une série de phénomènes étranges, inexplicables voire meurtriers. Selon l'une des nonnes, Satan en personne a pris possession du lieu. La mère supérieure, sœur Vincenza, fait appel à un exorciste, afin d'enquêter sur ces mystères mais sans aucun succès. L'arrivée d'un nouveau et jeune prêtre, père Valerio, spécialiste en parapsychologie, dévoile les inavouables secrets qui hantent le couvent et ses occupants. Il découvre que sœur Vincenza cache une fille illégitime, horriblement défigurée par le feu, et que celle-ci est dotée de pouvoirs surnaturels utilisés par sa mère à des fins meurtrières.
Johanna, jeune femme paralytique, se lie à Craig, son entraîneur sportif. Ce dernier apprend par le Dr Zernick, médecin traitant de Johanna, qu'elle a été violentée et traumatisée dans son enfance par un fou vêtu d'une soutane. Après avoir épousé Craig, Johanna est victime d'attaques, tandis que deux prêtres sont assassinés.