Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Melanie is married to Tom, a controlling, cold and self-centered man who happens to be a prison warden. He finds her to be a liability to his career aspirations and secretly plans to have her kidnapped and killed, by Jack, a dangerous inmate.

It is a fiction movie about the background of one presidential election campaign. It is a real story, that never happened.