一个刚刚从精神病院放出的年轻人，很容易被当作是杀人狂。这个悲剧几乎让人无法痛恨影片结尾误杀了彼得的探长，这是一个误会的死环。没有哪个角色要背负观众的诅咒和痛恨（也许应该是彼得的母亲），是这个社会的惯常势力观念，让所有人都觉得，疯狂、精神病态就应该是杀人暴力的嫌疑犯。没有人辩解，精神非常态的不知道辩解，偶尔或许有人无力地辩解——就像这部几乎不知名的影片。Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly sudden emotional shifts. He clings to his humanity like a raft, barely afloat in a sea of terror. In a brief moment of congruence, he shatters his image reflected in a window, perhaps to more properly align it with his fragmented psyche. During his quest, he runs afoul of the law and an ongoing murder investigation.