In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

A woman has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

An indiscretion between two close friends tears down their respective marriages.