A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.

A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.

A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Lily, an American traveling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice to Paris, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, whom they met and had a tender romance 10 years earlier while vacationing in France which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt breakup.