Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

The lives of three disparate families are illuminated by a meteor shower on a winter night.

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.