When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.

Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions. Finally Bill can take no more of his father's excessive punishments and runs away. Complications ensue.

When John Langdon suspects--wrongly, as it turns out--that his wife Claire is having an affair he divorces her, and gets custody of their daughter Florence.