A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
