Cab Driver
Após sair da prisão, Carlito Brigante jura a si mesmo que nunca mais vai voltar a viver como no passado. A mudança de vida não é fácil, uma vez que ele precisa resistir a várias oportunidades e tentações para voltar a lidar com o tráfico de heroína. Ele encontra seu antigo amor, Gail, que lhe mostra que a vida pode ser feliz. Carlito começa a economizar dinheiro para se mudar para as Bahamas, mas nem tudo sai como o esperado.
Ben
Um operário de uma fábrica de brinquedos, mentalmente marcado quando criança ao saber que Papai Noel não é real, sofre um colapso nervoso após ser menosprezado no trabalho e embarca em uma matança de Natal.
Welfare Clerk
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.
Devil, Sr.
The Devil sets his sights on Sam Silverstein, a sexually frustrated sixty-five-year-old Jewish husband in crisis, whom he selects as an easy mark. At first Silverstein resists, but as life moves from one disappointment to another, he agrees to sell his soul for a chance to make out with a pretty young thing.
Lt. Taggert
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
