A widowed husband seeks solace in the company of a beautiful hispanic prostitute to whom he becomes quickly endeared, complicating their initial business arrangement.

A professor's obsession with the German philosopher Heidegger leads him on a personal journey into the evils of the Holocaust and into his own fears -- a journey which forces him to revisit the loves and losses of his life, while struggling to reconcile the brilliance of Heidegger's philosophy with his blind Nazi sympathies.

Two boys, best of friends since grade school, grow up and take different paths in life - one a priest, the other a gangster. They both fall in love with the same woman.