Kathryn Beck is the owner of a small catering business in small-town America who spends the night with a guy named Ben Cole, who unbeknownst to her is a suspected bank robber and Weather Underground terrorist. After he leaves, the police burst into her house, hold her as a witness and ridicule her. When the media report about her rendez-vous, and call her a terrorist lover, Kathryn must try her best to save her image.