A recently married woman runs away from her husband upon discovering that he had had a mistress. The father-in-law, determined to fix things, also becomes entangled in a disgust with his wife.
Two girls without blood relationship but physically the same. One is shy and educated, the daughter of a good class marriage and the other is a very clever orphan but with terrible manners who lives in a kind of shelter.
During a conversation between a grandfather and his grandson, the latter tells him the story of the liberator General José de San Martín (1778-1850) from the patriot's childhood, through his stay in Spain, his return to the Río de la Plata, the development of the continental plan and the European exile.
A by-the-books agent (Scott) must do whatever it takes to track down a psychopath (Childers) to retrieve a stolen briefcase containing contents of an unknown origin.
Un conseiller financier embarque sa famille au fin fond du Missouri. Il doit y blanchir 500 millions de dollars en cinq ans pour calmer la fureur d'un baron de la drogue.
Dwight Manfredi, surnommé "Le Général", vient de sortir de prison où il a passé 25 ans. Cet ancien membre de la mafia new-yorkaise est cependant contraint de s'exiler à Tulsa dans l'Oklahoma. Il va y rassembler sa propre « famille » pour développer un empire criminel.