A couple discovers that their friend has gone missing. Their investigation leads them to believe that antisemites are behind the disappearance.

In the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi enemy Haake with murder in mind. One rainy night, Ravic meets Joan Madou, a kept woman cast adrift by her lover's sudden death. Against Ravic's better judgment, they become involved in a doomed affair.

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.