When a lawyer she's investigating is brutally murdered, TV reporter Zac McKay becomes a prime suspect. With the help of a suspicious police lieutenant and despite threats from a local politician she continues with her exposé.

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends him to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where toil, bad food, and antisemitic jibes await. Eugene takes refuge in his sense of humor and in his diary, but they won't protect him in a battle of wills with an unstable drill sergeant.