Tired and dejected, Peter struggles with his overbearing responsibilities. By night, he guards an old industrial estate while his days are spent at home, caring for his sick grandmother. When his friendly boss, Errol, invites him over for a meal with his family, Peter reluctantly agrees. But, as Peter is about to discover, all is not well in Errol's house either.
December, the 25th. A hanged up man tries to remember the previous night's events of a Christmas's Dinner. He asks his wife what he did and what he talked about that he doesn't remember at all. For his astonishment, he discovers that he almost only talked about a Christmas's Even once lost in his memories. In a kind of journey into his self through an evasive, enigmatic, mysterious and poetic dialog with his wife, he rescues his own childhood and revalues his present.
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When his prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assasination scheme.
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with two ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
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