Johnny Carson makes a nostalgic visit back to his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska in the fall of 1981, revisiting the places of his youth and talking with some of the people he grew up with.
Sardú es el maestro de ceremonias del Teatro Macabro, en el cual él se dedica a asesinar personas en público, haciéndolo parecer como parte de su acto.
Henry Wiggen es el pitcher estrella, mientras Bruce Pearson es un jugador normal, amigo de todos los jugadores. Un día, Bruce se entera de que tiene una enfermedad terminal.
Poco después de tomar posesión de su plaza como profesor de educación física en un internado religioso para chicos, Paul Resse observa algo que le inquieta: los alumnos muestran signos evidentes de complacencia en proporcionar y obtener dolor físico mediante cualquier método a su alcance, negándose después a revelar cómo se lesionaron.
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the young woman becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted - as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries.
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
