A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.