When a group of boys graduate from Henry Hudson High School in the Bronx in 1944, the ceremony remains largely the same as any other year, despite the country being in the middle of World War II.

Near the end of World War II, five police officials investigate a series of murders.

A woman tells the story of her father's mother, a Jewish woman from Germany who moves to Latvia to marry an older man during the middle of the twentieth century, to her daughter. The woman reminds her daughter to be cautious of dreamers and to always read the news so that she does not end up with the same fate as that of the grandmother.

During World War II, a group of French prisoners on a windowless train find a hole in the wall of their boxcar and are delighted, when they look through it, to see the countryside of their homeland.