Sinfonia fatale

An unscrupulous businessman tries to win a government contract by playing up to the engineer assigned to review the project. He comes to the engineer's hotel room to offer him money, all the while secretly filming the proceedings with a hidden camera. Meanwhile the engineer, unhappily married to an alcoholic, uses the hotel room to continue his affair with the businessman's attractive young wife.

Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception. Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the culture, attitudes and religion of the Middle East. First, a knife thrower's affair threatens his mistress. Then, the plague tests a band of pilgrims journeying to Mecca. Finally, two con men learn a lesson at a Coptic church.

A group therapy session takes place involving a drummer from a suddenly defunct rock band, an athlete and a pregnant junkie.

A doctor spends 24 hours in a clinic with a group of patients. Each character has his or her own story to tell, about their fathers, mothers, or spouses who don't understand them, and how they've turned instead to drugs.

A money-strapped Los Angeles businessman hopes to solve his financial woes by blackmailing his wife's married lover. Director Victor Stoloff's 1966 drama stars Barry Sullivan, Jack Ging, Joan Blackman, Nancy Malone and Jackie DeShannon.