Riggs O'Hara

Au XIIe siècle, Thomas Becket est le chancelier du royaume et l'ami d'Henri II d'Angleterre. Celui-ci doit le promouvoir archevêque de Canterbury à la mort de ce dernier. Becket se sent alors investi par toutes les tâches qui lui incombent, mais ses activités font bientôt de lui un rival pour le roi…

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.

After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.