A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.