The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.
as Art Corvin - chief of presidential security
as Bernard «Barney» Rutkowski - US air defense commander
as Saul Lieberman - director of the CIA
as Millie Morgan - general James Scott's mistress
as US Ambassador to the USSR
as Lawrence Palmer - admiral
as wife of the US President
as American military man
as journalist on TV
as sound engineer at the president's interview
