An American sergeant escapes a bloody massacre by German troops and flees into the fierce winter landscape. Wounded and seeking shelter he comes across a woman praying in a small barn. She tries to help but the German soldiers are in pursuit and closing in. What can they do?

The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the street and a journalist who is going to kill himself because he made public his penchant for crossdressing.