The plot, concerning a murdered transvestite, is diverting without being wholly convincing.
The plot, concerning the church tradition of votive offerings and a widow's search for absolution, was incidental.
Slightly less impressive is the main plot, concerning a man Yasmin thinks may be a paedophile and might be just as obsessed with Alice as she is.
There is a wisp of plot concerning the wiring of the playhouse, in preparation for Pee-wee's first ventures into computerland.
This play, probably written in the late 1620s, just before " 'Tis Pity," and set in ancient Sparta, features a complex plot concerning three intertwined couples.
Indeed, the plot concerning Simonini seemed flimsily unsatisfying compared with the fantastic plot handed over to Eco by the facts of history.
Only later does Marian re-enter the world of espionage, in a fascinating plot concerning Britain's somewhat under-appreciated role in the making of the atomic and hydrogen bombs.
A reader unaware of the underpinning in hard historical facts might begin to languish beneath the tedium of the scheming and ranting, though Eco has tried to relieve the monotony by superimposing a plot concerning his protagonist.
Natalia Makarova's production, based on Petipa, pays serious attention to the plot concerning a romantic triangle involving Solor, a handsome warrior; Nikiya, the Indian temple dancer he loves, and Gamzatti, the Rajah's daughter he is expected to marry for reasons of state.
McGuane's first novel in 10 years shows, as his work in the 1970's did, people responding with comically awful behavior to a hostile but also zany universe; there is a plot, concerning some kind of infernal legacy, but the digressions the author can never resist are, fortunately, deft and funny no matter how irrelevant or inconsequential.
However, the plot, concerning Leonardo DiCaprio's attempt to avenge the death of his father (Liam Neeson) and a lame romance with pickpocket Cameron Diaz, is puny and the characters sketchy: except, that is, for Daniel Day-Lewis's nativist chief Bill the Butcher who supercharges the movie whenever he appears.
