Kevin Costner plays an outspoken naval officer who and the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman) both fall in love with the same woman (Sean Young), but the secret is not revealed until the woman is found dead. The flirtatious and unrestrained naval officer met the mistress of the defense official, and the two quickly fell in love with each other. She decided to leave the official and fell to her death during a quarrel. Costner was ordered to investigate her death, only to find that all the evidence was against him, making him the most suspicious murderer. Who is going to frame him? How did he get out unharmed?