Based on fact, the story is about a theatrical agent from Milwaukee who brings four exotic dancers from Chicago to Saigon during the Vietnam War to entertain the GIs in a nightclub. The women go to the US Embassy and complain they were held prisoner and forced into prostitution, which results in the agents prosecution for white slavery. The author, a criminal lawyer, is retained in Chicago to defend him, and describes the background facts, his defense, and the colorful trial. All this is against a background of the war, the protest movement, the sexual revolution, and Watergate.