Jack Gains

한나는 홀로 아들 짐을 키우며 농장을 꾸려 간다. 어떻게 해서든 고된 농장일에서 벗어나고 싶어하는 짐 때문에 모자의 관계는 편하지 않다. 결국 짐이 어머니의 뜻을 거스르고 연인 메리와 결혼하겠다고 하자, 한나는 둘을 떼어놓기 위해 짐을 입대시켜 버린다. 그런데 1차 세계대전에 참전한 짐이 작전 중에 사망하고 만다. 한편, 짐이 떠난 후, 메리는 임신 사실을 알게 되는데, 그녀는 누구에게도 알리지 않고 홀로 아들을 낳아 기른다. 몇 년 후, 한나는 전쟁에서 자식을 잃은 어머니들의 모임에서 주관하는 프랑스 여행에 참여한다. 자식들의 무덤을 찾아가는 이 특별한 여정 중 한나는 아들을 죽음으로 내몰았다는 씻을 수 없는 죄책감에 시달린다.

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.

A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.