Oscar winner Faye Dunaway portrays the sensual and spiritual struggle of Katherine Stanton, and the tensions in her marriage to an Irish immigrant whose years of political loyalty have finally made him the prime candidate for mayor of Brooklyn. This portrayal of an intense woman of good birth, convent-bred yet dominated by her senses, led directly to Dunaway's later instant stardom in Bonnie and Clyde. Also stars Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls, Maude) and Obie Award winner Philip Bosco.