A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.