In the WWII era, a married couple spectates a death-defying stunt. The husband likens the impossible feat to their failing marriage and is relieved when the performer succeeds, but when the man then falls to his death, his wife's strange reaction signals the end of their love.

Everyone knows the story of Amanda Rawling, the pregnant heroin teenage runaway, who threw herself out of a hospital window, but no one knows the story about the nurse who lied about her baby being stillborn.