Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.

Alma自小便愛上了年輕的鄰居John。可是，他的身邊經常都有不同的女子。雖然他也喜歡她，但她堅信「愛情要靈慾合一，不可隨便」的信念，卻讓他們的關係一直保持著一個微妙的距離，總是介乎情人與朋友之間。直到這年的夏天，兩人終於有機會走到生命裡，最接近的一步……

格雷厄姆威爾是一位酗酒的學校老師，因爲二戰期間拒絕服役而被記錄在案，這也影響了他的職業發展。他的校長、妻子和學生都很看不起他。唯一仰慕他的腼腆和熱心的是他的一位學生——雪莉泰勒。自從威爾給泰勒免費單獨輔導功課之後，雪莉就慢慢愛上了這位老師。雪莉的迷戀無法滿足，出于絕望和天真，她向老師主動示愛。威爾婉轉地拒絕了她，想讓此事盡快過去。然而，威爾接下來遭遇了人生中的一個新麻煩——泰勒控告他對她進行非禮。

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.