A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.

When a married woman decides to leave her husband for a much younger man she incurs the wrath of her family. But is this her only chance of happiness?

Set in the 19th-century in France Georges Duroy cynically exploits women and his position working as a journalist to try and gain power.

In the far future, freedom fighter Roj Blake, framed by the all-powerful but corrupt Galactic Federation, escapes his captors from his sentence to a harsh penal colony and, helped by a handful of fellow convicts and armed with a superbly-equipped alien spaceship, sets about restoring freedom to the galaxy.