Dickie Pilager is running for governor of Colorado. He has no political experience and the campaign hits a snag when Pilager reels in a corpse during the making of a political advertisement about the environment. Pilager's campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires Danny O'Brien, a former journalist who works as a private investigator, to examine the case. Raven urges O'Brien to find potential links between the body and Pilager's potential enemies.