Kathryn Borstein works as a legal assistant for the legal department of a large manufacturing corporation. In the process of interviewing a middle-management accountant with the company about an employment-discrimination lawsuit, Kathryn discovers that a few of the top executives cheat on their income tax returns by not declaring a portion of their bonuses. Kathryn becomes disenchanted with her job with the corporationfor these and other reasonsand finds a new job with a law firm. Her supervising attorney in the new law firm is involved in a case against her former employer. The attorney tells Kathryn that the only way to deal with these big corporations is to get whatever dirt you can on them and then threaten to go to the press. He wants to know if Kathryn can give him any such information.