En 1917, coincé dans les tranchées depuis trop longtemps, le soldat britannique engagé Hamp déserte dans un moment de désespoir. Repris à Calais, il est renvoyé dans sa tranchée et jugé devant un tribunal militaire. Le capitaine Hargreaves va assurer sa défense.
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life.
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.