Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer headline an epic love story tightly bound to four decades of American history, adapted from Thomas Mallon's novel by Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Philadelphia. Hawkins Fuller (Bomer) moves in rarefied circles in 1950s Washington just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn instigate witch hunts to root out subversive elements and 'sexual deviants'. This dark period of betrayal and suspicion coincides with Hawkins meeting passionate idealist Tim Laughlin (Bailey) and the two men begin a secret romance, fully aware of the consequences if their relationship is discovered. Their bond endures as America witnesses protests against the Vietnam War, succumbs to the drug-fuelled hedonism of the 1970s, then sows seeds of fear and bigotry during the Aids crisis