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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In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Co...

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Ric...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man...

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is...

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A Valentine's Day story about a young couple, how they get together, and how they fall apart. All be...

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation o...

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

A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning ...

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. ...

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the c...