《小丑回魂》系列前传剧集，故事背景设定在1962年，比原版电影的时间线早了27年，深入探索了恐怖小丑潘尼怀斯的起源以及德里镇背后循环发生的恐怖事件。

New York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their stomachs on plane to New York - although both know of the risks, since Marina's sister died on a similar journey. However on arrival at the airport in New York they show nerves and all their dreams start to shatter...

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might be blamed, because she was white, but do so anyway. Almost immediately everyone suspects they are to blame. When Hester's politically influential mother Doris finds out what really happened, she fearing a scandal, forces her daughter to blame the men who rescued her, of raping and beating her. It's up to detective Curt Maddox, to find out what really happened, and their Hawaiian lawyer to do the impossible. Convince a white court of law, that they are innocent.

当生活在圣诞期间，大家希望的是一个接着一个的礼物。在经历了个人的悲剧，帕蒂艾迪生，一个社会工作者，找到了自己的归属。

A young Southern belle becomes the mistress of a magnificent plantation.

The series follows the lives of the three main characters from their youth into becoming major criminal figures in 1920's America.