A French officer is falsely accused of treason based on the faulty examination of a handwriting sample and is sentenced to live on Devil's Island. A journalist uncovers the story and makes it a national crusade to vindicate the man. Based on Emile Zola's published open letter defending French/Jewish Army officer Alfred Dreyfus and his subsequent conviction of treason.

A mercenary is hired by revolutionaries in a third world country to help organize and train an army. He encounters resistance and treachery.

A woman questions her husband's recent wealth. He refuses to reveal its source and confesses to being in trouble. He soon ends up dead. Detective Lieutenant Crane investigates the case.

When the editor fires a society page columnist, she confronts him and shoots him. Her spinster sister begins to doubt her alibi, and so do the police.

In the town of Ungerton, a medical student asks to be allowed to treat an adolescent girl who suffers from horrible headaches. He finds that allowing her to talk alleviates the pain — something her father soon learns to do.

Time becomes frazzled and disjointed for a woman whose husband lies in a coma after a train accident. He suffers from the same problem when he arrives home six years late.

A one-legged flight instructor and a Jewish fugitive flee Vichy France in a dilapidated airplane.

A gregarious plumber makes a house call and finds himself in a real life adventure when he is taken hostage by drug dealers.

A pampered college student returns home from a sea voyage to find an unseen presence watching over him.

The tragic story of Mary Todd Lincoln. Two young sons dying, a husband assassinated, delusions, and the betrayal of her final son push the bounds of sanity for the former First Lady.