Dhameystir weedha soo socota: Norman Grant (James Garner) waa halyeey dagaal hore noqday Senator si hagar la'aan ah u horumariya barnaamijka hawada sare ee Mareykanka inkastoo uu mucaaradka ka soo horjeedo. Ciyaartoyda kale ee ugu waawayn waxaa ka mid ah John Pope (Harry Hamlin), ka dib markii uu ku guuldareystay inuu ku guuleysto Annapolis, wuxuu ka diiwaan geliyaa qorista ciidanka badda sarkaal ciidanka badda ah, duuliye ciidan, tijaabo tijaabo ah iyo hormuud u ah cirfiidnimada oo ay weheliso saaxiibkiisa safarka hawada sare Randy Claggett (Beau Bridges); Penny Hardesty Pope (Blair Brown), oo ah qareen hami iyo qurux badan Senator Grant tan iyo markii la doortay iyo xaaska John Pope; Leopold Strabismus (David Dukes), oo ah ganacsade gawaarida ku iibiya oo rajeynaya inuu ka faa'iideysto
1947 cabsida UFO; saynisyahanka gantaalaha Jarmalka Dieter Kolff (Michael York), oo himilooyinkiisa (ama la'aantiisa) la tijaabiyo markii uu daacadnimadiisa ka wareejiyo Naasiyiinta Mareykanka; iyo Stanley Mott (Bruce Dern), oo ah injineer diyaaradeed oo shaqadiisa qarsoodiga ah ay tahay inuu hubiyo in ragga sida Kolff aysan soo qabsan Soviets ka dib dhicitaankii Jarmalka.