While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.
A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.