Chronicles the tragedy of the nineteenth century Irish famine, analyzing the potato famine itself from agricultural science through the English politics and policy decisions that made it worse, to the impact of the Irish immigration in America.
During World War II, twelve-year-old Harry Tucker finds a suitcase he believes belongs to a German spy and does his best to keep his family safe and turn the spy in to British officials.
Reporter Monty Molenski, trying to find his first front page story, decides to investigate his co-workers who he believes are behaving strangely, and in the process accidently snaps some amazing news photographs.