When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene.
Nora spends her time feeling sorry for herself as she faces hearing problems and blindness. But at the Bennington Christmas Pageant, Nora receives a special gift - a sure knowledge that Jesus Christ lives and loves her.
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.