Debra D. Jeffreys

Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. A young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious pregnant girl arrive at the church doors looking to begin new lives. The preacher, the Reverend Oliver Crawford, is not the judgmental church committee's first choice to be the Messiah's new pastor; an unwed father of a teenage son, he is given only two days to prove his worth to his new parishioners. Meanwhile, Katherine, a sixteen-year-old girl who is about to give birth, has come to the area to escape an abusive home and to search for a grandfather she doesn't know. With the help of local homeless advocate "Big" Willie Thorton, Crawford attempts to revive the spirit of the church and provide solace to the displaced girl.

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

A divorced private eye keeps in touch with his son and spies on an actress who has jilted him.

ニューヨーク市警殺人課の刑事ニック・コンクリン（ダグラス）は妻と離婚し、その子供の養育費を稼ぐのに日々苦労していた。そして、彼はある事件の麻薬密売品の押収品（金）を横領した嫌疑をかけられ、内務捜査官たちから査問を受けていた。そんなある昼下がり、ニックと、同僚のチャーリー・ビンセント（ガルシア）は、レストランに居た日本のヤクザの幹部と子分を、もう一人のヤクザが刺殺する現場に出くわす。追跡の末に男を逮捕するものの、日本国内での犯罪で指名手配されていたため、その男-佐藤（松田）を日本に護送することになった。