A downtown Manahattan gin mill plays host to a series of comic vignettes.
Detective Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a Catholic priest turned distinguished investigator for the police, has agreed to hear the confession of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death in a just a matter of hours. What he promises to reveal to Ainslie is the truth behind the crimes and the reason he confessed to the one crime Ainslie doesn't even believe he committed. What unfolds between the two men is a serpentine trail into both men's pasts based on the bestseller from master storyteller Arthur Hailey.
Lena, a lone female bank robber makes a getaway at a desolate motel in the California desert. Unbeknownst to her, someone places an orphaned baby in the backseat of her car, which she doesn't discover until far into her getaway.
