In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

A student with retinitis pigmentosa bonds with a young blind teacher and her seeing eye dog.

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)

A female university student works as a tutor. She has a student who wants to become a doctor. This student has an older sister whom he lives with. The student is horny for his slim tutor. The tutor visits the student's home for the lessons. The student drugs his tutor with a home-made concoction that puts the woman to sleep. His plan for sex is interrupted when his older sister comes home. Then things become explicit.