8 explorers trapped in a Russian cave system are hunted by an unknown presence.

A young woman on the run allows grieving parents to believe she is their late son's wife.

One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa.

Follows the intertwining stories of Walter Dishman, a melancholy parole officer struggling with the doldrums of married life, and three eccentric ex-convicts recently placed under his supervision.