Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before....

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal...

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975...

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave...

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

A beautiful woman with an ulterior motive hires two gunslingers to escort her through Indian territory so she can be reunited with her awaiting...

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town...

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them....