A cover-up spanning four U.S. Presidents pushes the country's first female newspaper publisher and her editor to join an unprecedented battle between press and government.

A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.

Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, resigned from the CIA because of a drinking problem, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A CD-ROM falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for cosmetic surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and Harry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.

A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.