A man who's suffering an unhappy marriage spends the evening with a woman at a bar. Upon returning home, he finds his wife murdered. He's the lead suspect and no one remembers seeing the barfly who could provide his alibi.

An ambitious woman is determined to rise to the top of the publishing business and will not let anything, or anyone, stand in her way. An ambitious woman is determined to rise to the top of the publishing business and will not let anything, or anyone, stand in her way.

Individuals throughout an American city end up touching one another in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Among the unrelated people are a lonely old man and his cat, a movie actor hoping to make it home for Christmas, a businessman, and a scientist who chooses to work in his lab on Christmas Eve.