在一家妇产医院，未来的父亲在走廊上步履蹒跚，而妻子则焦急地或快乐地等待婴儿。高效而富有同情心的护士保尔斯小姐使病房运转顺畅。格蕾丝·萨顿因被谋杀而从监狱转移到监狱时，事情变得活跃起来。大多数人都认为她被杀的人应该死，护士保尔斯怜悯地允许格蕾丝的丈夫杰德与妻子有无限的时间。在病房中，妇女对母性的感受各不相同。韦斯特夫人是六个孩子的母亲，她认为婴儿是赋予女性生活意义的要素。相比之下，艳舞女郎佛罗蕾达只是想尽快摆脱双胞胎，雷顿小姐已决定对抚养孩子的意见，无意成为溺爱母亲，妇女们在辩论各种理论时，一个女人想要一个婴儿，以至于她变得痴呆，从另一个病房流连忘返。一名意大利妇女得知自己的新生儿死亡后，悄悄地抽泣
在与杰德感人的告别后，格蕾丝的健康已受到监狱条件的折磨，他被带到劳动室，当杰德焦急地等待时，弗洛雷特对她双胞胎的准养母亲精心策划的计划感到震惊。她自己生一...
Young idealist Richard Miller is selected as valedictorian for his New England high-school commencement class of 1906 and intends to inject modern anti-capitalistic ideas into his speech. His father, Nat Miller, accidentally learns of it and interrupts Richard's speech before he can make a fool of himself. The small town later celebrates the Fourth of July with customary firewo...
Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than embittered, still has little interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son, too, is taken from him. The rest is ligh...
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds an opera house. He leaves Sarah for glamorous Lily and, when he makes it to Washington as Senator, marries her. When the gold standard is introduced, he's ruined.
In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffe...
