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Private investigator and surveillance expert Tom Welles is contacted by Daniel Longdale, the attorney of wealthy widow Mrs. Christian, whose husband has recently died. While going through the contents of her husband"s safe, she and Longdale find an 8 mm film depicting what appears to be the brutal murder of a teenage girl by a hulking man in a mask. Through the emotion shown it seems the film is real, but Mrs. Christian wants to know for certain.

After looking through missing persons files, Tom discovers the girl"s name is Mary-Anne Mathews. He visits the girl"s mother, Janet, and while searching the house finds Mary-Anne"s diary, in which she explains that she ran away to Hollywood to become a film star. Before he leaves, he asks Mrs. Mathews which she would choose -- to go on thinking that Mary-Anne is living a happy life without knowing for sure, or to know the truth, even if the worst were true. Mrs. Mathews responds that she has to know what happened to her daughter.