An anxious mother gives in to wretched temptation on a nocturnal flight; a young girl reveals the terrible mystery behind an innocent circle of light on the ceiling; a psychiatrist discovers the symptoms of a remarkable phobia concealing the collective fear of an entire generation. A group of teenagers turn vindictive to escape the tedium of their existence. The useless revenge of a daughter against her terrorist father, the perverse cynicism of an illusory lover, and the sterile heroism of a women in the face of the brutality of war, are some of the subjects of these nine stories of The Malice Within. Nine perspectives of the concept of what is badness and of how it reveals itself in human behaviour.