Alex Matter

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...

A wife discovers that her husband is cheating on her. Enraged, she puts together a plan to take her revenge on him. What she doesn't know is that her husband has a similar plan in mind for her. What neither one of them knows is that someone else has the same plan for both of them.

Lacking money or purpose, Alan, a young man, drifts around the country without establishing lasting relationships. The son of a concert pianist who apparently wishes to avoid him, Alan has made his life a stream of slight encounters. Occasionally he will accept a handout or have a tentative affair with a lonely young woman, only to move on again. One day, while walking around New York City, he meets a French singer, Renee, whom he had known previously, and follows her to Montauk Point on Long Island. Renee has a little boy who may be Alan's son. Drawn to the child, Alan experiences a brief moment during which he wants to stay. But after sobbing quietly on the beach, he leaves the young woman and her child and resumes his wandering.