Jonathan and his cousin Dickie, teenagers ensconced in the throes of puberty, trap an escaped psycho from a mental institution in a dark fruit cellar on an abandoned farm.

Willie is infected with tics and lice, surviving on the garbage from Dickie's home on Lake Syracuse. While being taken away from the abandoned farm, his arm comes loose from the straight jacket. He grabs young Jonathan and yells, "Everyone I love, burned... dead... You should have left me be."

Twenty years later, after the death of Jonathan's pregnant wife, he accepts a position as Clinical Director at the Marilyn State Mental Institution, in Indiana, a beautiful Insane Asylum.

Jonathan visits Lake Syracuse before starting his new career and his eccentric cousin Dickie arranges for him to meet Linda DaVinci, a psychologist. Linda is his new employee and they embark on an interesting relationship.

When Jonathan arrives at Marilyn State, Willie is a newly arriving patient. Dorothy, an over zealous nurse in charge of pharmaceuticals, keeps Willie drugged. Jonathan and Linda discover that Willie has escaped from several institutions, setting fires and killing people. Linda is convinced he is innocent. On the weekend, Jonathan and Linda investigate Willie's history and launch a sensual love affair at Dickie's cottage.

Back at the institution, Linda takes Willie off the drugs and makes strides in discovering his true personality. In the process, she exposes an evil sister. But, before Linda can tell Jonathan, she is kidnapped and exposed to shock treatment, forgetting everything she found out.

Dickie's home is ultimately destroyed by fire and Jonathan confronts Willie's enraged sister in a battle involving an electric cattle prod and a large Bowie knife, in a basement fruit cellar similar to the one in his youth. He doesn't win.

This time, Willie saves Jonathan's life.

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