A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.

Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.