Movie Producer, Rebecca Walsh, lives with a terrible secret from her past.  Raped by her uncle, she thought the incident was buried forever until a stranger pitches a scene that sounds eerily familiar to her secret.
How could he know the details?
It’s a question she poses to someone, who knows her secret.  She visits a mental institution to confront her brother, a delusional violent inmate.   He witnessed the rape and vowed never to tell.   She questions him under the watchful eyes of an eccentric Psychiatrist.  He denies disclosing her secret but informs her that their ruthless uncle has returned.
The mystery deepens, when an envelope arrives at her office.  In it she finds pages from a screenplay that describe a brutal murder scene.  Rebecca is shocked to learn the victim is her lover, whom she was with on the night he was killed.  She races to his apartment and discovers his butchered body propped up in bed with an envelope clutched in a death grip.  In it she discovers the next scenes in the screenplay.
As more scenes arrive, more bodies turn up including the body of her uncle. Rebecca’s life spirals into a nightmare as she tries to find the killer before the police arrest her or, she becomes the next victim.

It’s the early days of WWII.  America hasn’t entered the war yet.  Two teenage lads from a small Newfoundland town are eager to join the Navy.  Discovering they’re too young, they decide to join the Merchant Marines.