Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Katy Mixon, Robin Wright Penn, Jeff Daniels, Viola Davis, Harry Lennix, Rob...
Washington, D.C. Stephen Collins, a fast-rising United States Congressman with ambitions to become his party's presidential candidate. This goal is threatened after his mistress is found dead in suspicious circumstances, while right-wing opponents to Collins' campaign for social reform attempt to use the scandal to kill his political career. During a probe into a series of seemingly unrelated murders, Cal McCaffrey, an investigative journalist and Collins' former campaign manager, finds himself tasked with solving the case, becoming romantically involved with the Congressman's estranged wife in the process.