Patrick Dennis-Leigh

Août 1940. Afin d'échapper aux bombardements allemands, les enfants londoniens ont été évacués de la capitale. C'est ainsi que Charlie, Carrie et Paul Rawlins se retrouvent placés chez une vieille demoiselle revêche, Églantine Price, dans le petit village de Pepperinge Eye, sur la côte sud de l'Angleterre.

John Considine plays the flamboyant Dr. Death, a thousand-year-old magician who has mastered he art of transferring souls from one body to another and thereby manages to perpetuate himself by jumping from one body to the next. Apparently the Doc is a kindred spirit since his blood is a highly-corrosive acid that can strip flesh from bone

A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s out to destroy him.

A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.