Powerful tale stars Fredric March as a German man who speaks out against Hitler, but is forced to flee and leave his wife behind. He meets a young Jewish couple whom he accompanies across Europe, but when March learns that his wife is gravely ill, he risks his life to see her again.
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another;
she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.
A damaged U-boat is stranded in a Canadian bay in the early years of World War II. The Fanatical Nazi captain and his crew must reach the neutral United States or be captured.