Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her madness proves to be a problem in the marriage. The film transpires to a positive role of madness in the family, challenging conventional representations of madness in cinema.

"Harry Caul will go anywhere to bug a private conversation." A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

"It was hard to put a team together... until they found out who they were playing." Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.