Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, un veterà de guerra d'origen irlandès que treballa com a camioner, coneix accidentalment el mafiós Russell Bufalino. Un cop convertit en el seu home de confiança, Bufalino envia Frank a Chicago amb l'encàrrec d'ajudar Jimmy Hoffa, un poderós líder sindical relacionat amb el crim organitzat, amb qui Frank mantindrà una estreta amistat durant gairebé vint anys.
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann.
After rejection from his dream military academy, August Hoffman; A High School Hall Monitor snaps, going on a killing spree against people who disobey school rules outside of school grounds. Meanwhile a mysterious stalker watches August enact these crimes from afar.