Mayor Tom Alcala is asked to intercede on behalf of a deaf couple faced with losing their seven-year-old adopted son because of their handicap. June Lockhart guest stars.

Mayor Alcala is given a chance to react as a man first, and a politician second, in this love story with an inevitable unhappy ending. Janice Rule is cast as a strong-willed member of the city council who opposes Mayor Alcala's proposed plans for a new water system. The two vivid personalities clash and fall in love — but there's a hitch — Miss Rule is a dying woman.

Christopher Connelly plays a young medical student and part-time city worker who comes to Mayor Alcala seeking help. The boy has performed an emergency tracheotomy on the victim of a car crash, saved the man's life, but now is being sued. Severn Darden plays the big lawyer handling the case. Henry Jones is the victim and Fay Spain plays his wife. A man named Booth, who donated a big sum into Alcala's campaign, wants the Mayor to do something about illegal workers.