Maximilian Moeran is an American Senator and intends to run for the White House. He's also a crook, a womaniser and an ex-American-Football star. A popular man, he runs his political life without scruples, while having a sexual affair with Esme, a girl of school-age. However, one night, left alone in the dark on the fifty-yard line of a football stadium, he has a moment of clarity. Suspected by family and friends of having had a nervous breakdown, Maxmillian struggles to keep a hold on all that he's built up. When Esme returns seeking some kind of redress for the innocence he took, Maxmillian has a choice to make - the old life or the new.