Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

1932年联华出品，为蔡楚生的第一步执导作品。罗文是名作家，性喜浪漫，与交际花李惠兰成为“知音”。其妻华素文好言相劝，罗文却说“你把生活看得那样严肃，和你在一起令我感到寂寞”。在李惠兰的诱惑下，罗文强行与素文离婚，素文只得到乡下一家小学当教员。李惠兰与罗文结婚后依然时常外出应酬，因罗文忙于笔耕无暇陪伴，投入他人怀抱，并卷走了罗文小说《天堂》的稿酬。罗文悔恨交加，粉红色的梦想破灭。素文十分感慨，写就《弃妇泪史》，署名罗文。罗文苦寻素云，一家团圆。

东江市公安局法医米小米在一起无名女尸案中，遇到了与姐姐米小佳的自杀有莫大关联的刑警温梓锋。两人的搭档过程中，米小米心有芥蒂，温梓锋却浑然不觉。在这样龃龉的气氛里，案件仍得到了重大突破，确认了尸源就是做过整容手术的网红主播曹越，进而锁定了有重大作案嫌疑的富二代李阳，却苦无证据。米小米通过法医检测，在李阳的木质棒球棍里检测出了血液反应，夯实了铁证。就在李阳自己都认罪之时，温梓锋却怀疑曹越案和三年期另一起整容女尸案有着太多的共同之处，本案背后仍有隐藏的真相。

Kang Yu-jin is a leading specialist in the biological field. While collecting butterflies, he finds a rare breed and brings it home. His wife Sun-hi is glad to have her husband for the night and the next day sees a strange wooden doll amongst her husband's films and begins to feel strange. Returning from a trip to the country side, he brings home Mi-ok, the daughter of a shaman priestess. Sun-hi finds the same doll in Mi-ok's clothes and begins to get suspicious and finally deranged. She goes mad one day and tries to get rid of Mi-ok and accidentally causes Mi-ok to fall to her death. But from then on, Sun-hi is tormented by visions of the wooden doll attacking her.