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美丽女孩瑞茜·霍尔登（佐伊·丹斯切尔 Zooey Deschanel 饰）心中怀有表演的梦想，为此她从密歇根州的老家来到大都会纽约，靠着自己的勤奋取得了些许成就。她的父亲丹（埃德·哈里斯 Ed Harries 饰）曾是一名知名作家，却因爱妻之死而将近二十年再未执笔。瑞茜 和父亲的关系颇为冷淡，父女二人分别多年几无联系。某晚，演出完毕的瑞茜迎来一位不速之客，她叫劳瑞·兰斯基（艾米·麦迪甘 Amy Madigen 饰），是一个以编书为生的女人。劳瑞对丹当年写给爱妻的情书极为感兴趣，她希望瑞茜能够提供这些情书。　　虽然实现了演员的梦想，但是瑞茜仍为生计所迫。在丰厚报酬的诱惑下，她决定返回阔别七年之久的老家，却未曾想到这是一次改变人生的旅程……

发生在五个厕所里的五个故事。这部黑色幽默情景喜剧无情地揭示了社会最黑暗的角落，将人性中背信弃义的故事编绘成杂锦展现给观众。五个彼此缠绕的故事以暗示的手法讲述，意图向观众阐释对道德的谴责。(豆瓣字幕翻译2.0小组)

In The Nightmare, director Rodney Ascher (Room 237) has done just that. The film explores the condition commonly referred to as “sleep paralysis.” That’s a condition where someone is in bed, but totally physically immobilized. Some who suffer from the condition – including the eight subjects in this documentary – feel they are visited by something evil during these periods. Ascher lets these subjects tell their stories, then we watch them play out on screen. It’s absolutely horrifying, if not wholly rewarding.