On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
Just before a nuclear holocaust, an eccentric millionaire offers the use of his bomb shelter to three people who wronged him in the past. But his price for survival is an apology - which for these three, many be too high a price to pay.
A space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of a newly discovered planet into accepting him as their God, but when another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers everything is relative.
Klutzy-but-lovable Agnes Grep is "rescued" from poverty by Cavender, a guardian angel who will earn his wings if he can improve her life in a substantial way.