In Jim Crow North Carolina, a Black man new to town inadvertently becomes witness to a relationship between the town priest and a seventeen-year-old seminary student, and must stand trial when the priest is accused of statutory rape.

An Italian poet visits her friend in Madagascar, where they attempt to help the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Italian.

A sign painter in rural Ontario has a hobby of woodcutting in the nearby countryside. When he hears a rumor of a competitor's contract for an area where he had already planned to gather wood, he rushes to cut down as many trees as he can, but his haste leads to an accident with potentially deadly consequences.