Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike, takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence for her past adultery, and assigning his employees journalistic jobs for which they have little aptitude or interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting one of his correspondents, Fay Doyle, a teary, self-pitying woman who makes a play for him. Adam is torn between his loyalty to the newspaper and his girl Justy.T4急的爆燥起来，它两只前爪不停在自己头上撕扯，那颗原本只裂开一半的眼球竟然被它拉断扔到一边，一颗鲜嫩的人头竟然就这样出现了，这颗人头看起来也像正常人类一样的有鼻子有眼，但怎么看却都是怪异，好像不是地球人种一般。