A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
