Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support Max Jeffries, who has been blacklisted as a result of the McCarthy hearings, and when he ends up murdered after a brawl with Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner wants Edna to clear the crooner's name.

"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...