A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

In 1909 Cornwall, the affair between a disfigured miller's wife and his estranged cousin leads to a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.

A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.

A murderous twin gets his comeuppance.