In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

A single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.