In the banquet room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, political bigwigs are waiting for Dewey Roberts to speak, accepting his nomination as party candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America. But while the politicians wait, Dewey sits in his hotel suite, talking with an old friend, Nora Trinell, who was his school teacher back home in Indiana. Back then, he had a crush on her, but for Nora, she recalls her past life and her relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost...