Bright Young Women concerns Cindy, who one night witnesses a guy leaving her sorority house. She's about to call out to him, thinking he's the guy who mends things for them, when she notices something dripping from the baseball bat in his hand. This guy has attacked her friends; she later finds out that her best friend is dead and two of the girls are badly beaten. She is frozen in fear and shrinks into the darkness. She will always remember that night . . .

In the present, Cindy is thinking about the various movies and documentaries that have been made about the killer, and how she has been portrayed as the girl who saw him leave their house. The killer has always been portrayed as a Ted Bundy type of guy, good-looking, enigmatic, you would never know etc. Cindy has her own daughter now, and there's a new documentary coming about what happened that night . . . but does anyone really know what happened?