Tom Krome is a newspaper reporter who used to report hard news, but has been forced to take a job as a features writer in order to pay the bills in a declining newspaper industry. om has been married for several years to an actress and has tried to divorce her for more than four years. Unfortunately, Tom's wife refuses to be the first in her family to be divorced and she keeps dodging the process server. Tom begins an affair with a woman who is married to a judge. As Tom takes on the story of the small town lottery winner, Tom's lover decides to tell her husband about the affair in amazing detail.