<P> The film was a critical and financial success, with Walter earning praise for her first major film role . </P> <P> Dave Garver is a KRML radio disc jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel - by - the - Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program . At his favorite bar, seemingly by chance, he encounters a woman named Evelyn Draper . Dave drives her home, where she reveals that their meeting was not accidental; she sought him out after hearing the bar mentioned on his radio show . He guesses correctly that she is the recurring caller who always requests the jazz standard "Misty". The two have sex . </P> <P> A casual relationship begins between Dave and Evelyn . But before long, Evelyn begins to display obsessive behavior . She shows up at Dave's house uninvited, follows him to work, and calls to demand that he not leave her alone for a single minute . The final straw comes when Evelyn disrupts a business meeting, mistaking Dave's lunch companion for his date . </P> <P> His efforts to gently sever ties with Evelyn lead her to attempt suicide in his home by slashing her wrists . After Dave rejects her again, Evelyn breaks into his home and his housekeeper finds her vandalizing his possessions . Evelyn stabs the housekeeper and is subsequently committed to a psychiatric hospital . </P>

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