Winding their way through three cities and three tales, the various stories, situated in Paris, Rome, and New York, are, at first glance, all separate. However, connections are made among them as the film unwinds, concentrating on three men and their romantic entanglements.

The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...