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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One day, Heng saves a woman, Ms. Yip, from drowning in his school’s pool. When she turns out to be H...

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconst...

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree...

While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from R...

In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive t...

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. ...

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that...

A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love wit...

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal tri...

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approa...

Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews...

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his strugg...

In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of hap...

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers ...

A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother...