It's the McCarthy era in Hollywood and screenwriter Peter Appleton is a predictably ambitious man, but when he is blacklisted for a communist connection in the past his life takes a nosedive. Depressed and confused Peter crashes into a torrential river and is saved by the inhabitants of the sleepy little town of Lawson, who welcome him home as missing in action hero, Luke Trimble. Luke/Peter sets about rekindling the small town's cinema 'The Majestic', but with the FBI closing in and the memory find out more...