Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

Four thieves attempt to make the richest score in history.

A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.

Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.