Brenda takes the breaking news of her husband Doug’s affair with his campaign manager very hard—it could not have come at a worse time.  But is there any truth to it?  As the affair unfolds, Brenda’s brother gets caught up in a counterfeit money scheme which turns out to be part of an elaborate FBI sting designed to catch “a public official gone bad,” Doug.  Each action sets off another, and in the end pits Brenda and Doug against each other in a general election campaign, each of them on opposite sides in a landscape of shifting ethical boundaries.