When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.嗄. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, 嗄unt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. 嗄nd, what happened to 嗄lice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room