
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.

On Christmas Eve, a family arrives at a reformed convict uncle's house and the parents immediately drop the kids off there and go shopping.

Two young kids end up spending Christmas eve alone and they mistake two burglars for Santa