Jennifer Corvino, hija de un famoso actor de Hollywood, ingresa en la Academia Richard Wagner, un internado situado en las montañas que rodean Zurich (Suiza). Muy pronto empiezan a producirse una serie de brutales asesinatos, obra de un psicópata, con una especial inclinación por las jovencitas del colegio. Jennifer, que tiene los dones paranormales de la telequinesia y la telepatía, intentará no sólo desenmascarar al sádico que aterroriza a sus compañeras, sino también averiguar qué terrible secreto encierran los muros del internado.

Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attracted to Dr Tony Stanton she ignores his warnings of possibly fatal consequences unless she rests completely. Rather, she opts for a livelier time in Monte Carlo with dashing Paul Clermont.

Childhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.

For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.

Medical student Antti Ahonen, who is fighting tuberculosis, finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his friend Heikki Huhtamäki and his crush Helmi Hirvinen.