Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les capitaines successifs de remorqueurs britanniques envoyés en mission de sauvetage se transmettent la clé d'un appartement au port d'attache, où vit une jeune veuve de guerre italo-suisse solitaire.
A teenager, wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his father, escapes from jail. He hooks up with a prostitute and they take to the road to find the real killer of his father.
When Elsa's three mischievous cubs begin wreaking havoc on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
