Anne Heywood

Two women, Jill and Ellen, struggle with a chicken farm. Paul Grenfell returns, restores order, and proposes to Ellen. Jill's manipulations awaken Ellen's dormant homosexuality, leading them to become lovers.

During the 1570s, in the convent of Sant'Arcangelo di Baiano, after the death of the mother superior, a power struggle rages on, as one nun, who comes from a powerful family, is willing to do anything to become the new abbess.

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

A veteran Secret Service Agent from Britain hijacks a government shipment of fifteen million dollars of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.