真相至上

女记者瑞秋（凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰）从线人处获得了一份情报涉及政府一次相当不光彩的行为。在丈夫雷（大卫·休默 David Schwimmer 饰）支持下刊登了这起新闻报道。政府最终以泄露国家 机密的罪行将瑞秋推上被告席，主审该案件的则是自负的检察官帕顿（马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon 饰）。在法庭上，面对帕顿的层层逼问，瑞秋坦然地叙述了整个事件的前前后后，公众心中的天平也开始往瑞秋方面倾斜，但是艾伦坚持要求瑞秋必须说出资料的提供者是谁，瑞秋逐渐地陷入进退两难的境地。艾伦开始向舆论和瑞秋的家人施加压力，而雷也渐渐地抵抗不住国家给予的压力，建议瑞秋屈服于国家。但瑞秋向雷表达了自己的坚持：真相至上。Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert CIA operative when ordering air strikes against Venezuela. Rachel names the agent, Erica Van Doren, a woman whose young daughter is in Rachel's son's class at school. The government moves quickly to force Rachel to name her source. She's jailed for contempt when she refuses. She won't change her mind, and the days add up. Chaos descends on Van Doren's life as well. First Amendment versus national security, marriage and motherhood versus separation. What's the value of a principle?