A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
Берлин вскоре после Второй мировой войны. В рамках процесса денацификации американские оккупационные войска готовят процесс против известного дирижера Вильгельма Фуртвенглера, который был в фаворе у нацистских властей. Вместе с тем, Фуртвенглер делал все возможное, чтобы помочь еврейским музыкантам, а некоторых спас от концлагеря. Американский майор Стив Арнольд должен проверить дело Фуртвенглера. Он опрашивает подозреваемого и многочисленных свидетелей событий. Мнения сторон расходятся, но каждый по-своему прав.
