A young girl, who struggles with her pilot father's death in a plane crash years before, visits her grandmother in Newfoundland. While there, she encounters the ghosts of two pilots, who are condemned to Earth to constantly re-live their own crash that occurred in 1927. The girl decides to help the pair by helping them re-build their airplane and complete their flight so they may be released and, in turn, deal with her own emotional bondage.
When Erin's special effects whiz father gives she and her friend Marty the first tickets to a new theme park ride, they think they have won the jackpot. However, when the ride breaks down midway through, things quickly go from bad to worse.
Earl Long (Paul Newman) é um governador progressista, político de idéias liberais, excêntrico e impetuoso, que se apaixona pela sedutora Blaze Starr, uma dançarina strip-teaser de espírito inocente e coração de ouro. Forçado a escolher entre sua carreira e a mulher que amava, ele escolhe... ambas, dando início a um escândalo estrondoso. Uma história real que aconteceu nos anos 1950, no conservador Estado americano de Louisiania.
