While undergoing open heart surgery, a man s failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors

Storyline: At a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, Alexandria is a child recovering from a broken arm. She befriends Roy Walker, a movie stunt man with legs paralyzed after a fall. At her request, Roy tells her an elaborate story about six men of widely varied backgrounds who are on a quest to kill a corrupt provincial governor. Between chapters of the story, Roy inveigles Alexandria to scout the hospitals pharmacy for morphine. As Roys fantastic tale nears its end, Death seems close at hand.

A former Nazi doctor-turned-pedophile, paralyzed from the neck down after a suicide attempt, is forced to accept a boy as his nurse under threat of blackmail: the boy secretly witnessed the doctor's torture and murder of another boy, and possesses the man's diary, which details his wartime experiments and his subsequent descent into pedophilia and murder. Before long, the boy displays his ambition to follow in the older man's footsteps

The truth tory of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and possesses to live on using an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.