At a British Regimental party in Colonial India, the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden, and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior Lieutenants of the crime.
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.
In 1940s Kenya, a love affair between a British aristocrat and a married woman triggers a scandal that shakes the hedonistic Happy Valley society.
