A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

An enemy of the Count of Monte Cristo frames his son for a murder in order to exact revenge and steal the family fortune.

The odd, unhealthy relationship between a psychologically damaged man and his sister is upended by the arrival of a mysterious drifter.