Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.