Peter Masterson

A modern woman and her family, new to the town of Stepford, starts to see that the wives in town are suspiciously perfect and submissive to their men.

Tragedy strikes a lonely sharecropper who takes in an ailing pregnant woman abandoned by her husband and begins to raise the child as his own.

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer; flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman.