Representative Slattery (Richard Crenna) goes to the aid of an ex-GI (Tommy Sands) who had defected to the Viet Cong in Vietnam. A resident of Slattery's district, the shattered youth returns home to find that he is no longer a citizen.

Joan Blackman has a secret that may destroy her father's life. Slattery persuades an educator to stand for reappointment as state board of education president despite the threat of a smear.

Ed Wynn, as spry old Ezra Tallicott, enlists the aid of State Representative Slattery. Earnest hero Slattery fights against closing a home for the aged.