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 married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

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...

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed b...

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-alterin...

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with th...

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it be...

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empi...

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Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...