Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.

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A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own...

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An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

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Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own....
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagno...

A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

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