Otte måneder efter at en ukendt morder skar hovedet af en turist, ankommer den unge Jennifer Corvino til Schweiz for at blive indlogeret på sin nye privatskole. Da Jennifer går i søvne og bliver vidne til et nyt mord, flygter hun ind i skoven. Hun farer vild og møder en entomolog, der opdager, at hun besidder en særlig evne. Hun kan kommunikere med insekter. Måske kan Jennifers unikke egenskaber hjælpe hende med at løse mordgåden.

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.

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.

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.