Susan, a young White House staffer comes across a money black market being run in Vietnam by the administration to help finance the President's 1968 re-election campaign. People who discover the black market are being murdered. When a man, Susan believes to be the murderer approaches her, she escapes. With the help of a Navy SEAL Susan travels to Vietnam, and uncovers evidence exposing the black market. Together she and the SEAL travel back to the U.S., turn the evidence over to the FBI which has a devastating effect on the 1968 Presidential election.
Susan's romantic involvement with a member of the administration complicates her quest to find the black market evidence. While in Vietnam Susan has a near death combat experience during the Tet offensive of 1968.