After being accused by a little girl of kidnapping and murdering her sister, a salesman finds his reputation permanently damaged. Despite being exonerated of all charges, he still finds himself having to prove his innocence to his family and co-workers.
Has the old Countess really sold her soul to the Devil for the secret of winning at cards?
A loyal and loved housekeeper faces dismissal when her employers decide to close down the house now that the children have grown up.
Set in an idyllic mountain village near Siena in Italy in 1804. The priest Don Geronimo and his flock go about their lives contentedly and peacefully, with illness and ill-will a rarity in the village. One day however, the French army arrives with a General on a mission to Don Geronimo which attracts nobles and lawyers and begins to cause greed and ambition among people in the village.
A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown, days before her son's marriage.
A young hitchhiker goes along with a rural school girl's belief that he is a movie star.
A friend of a grief-stricken widow, a woman he's loved for many years, tries to convince her that she is making a mistake by treating the shop as a shrine to her husband's memory.
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation
A pathologist working in a hospital is called upon to perform an autopsy on a man who has died mysteriously. His findings lead him to a web of government agents, intrigue, national security and the possibility of an outbreak of bubonic plague.