After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at an old mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.

The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an entrepreneur.

A man (Beau Bridges) with amnesia finds love with an innkeeper (Pam Dawber), then faces a difficult decision when his wife (Tess Harper) finally finds him.

Living on the streets, a teenager (Thora Birch) returns to high school, earns her diploma and gets a college scholarship.

The past comes back to haunt a single mother (Jean Smart) when a mystery man (Gregory Hines) appears at her door.