Three Irwin Shaw short stories are dramatized. In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" a young married couple stop for a drink on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, and the conversation turns to the husband's fidelity. "The Monument" centers on the conflict between a popular bartender with a following in an upscale Irish bar in 1938 Manhattan and its owner, who is determined to introduce a more economical whiskey in the establishment over the barkeep's objections. In "The Man Who Married a French Wife" the influential American husband of a French woman is asked by her former lover, a former resistance fighter, to help him escape the country.
Jeff Bridges
as Michael Loomis
Carol Kane
as Frances Loomis
Charles Durning
as McMahon
Brian Dennehy
as Grimmet
Claudine Auger
as Ginette Beauchurch
Bob Sherman
as Tom Beauchurch
Pierre Santini
as Claude Morin
