Trial By Media

The choice: Stick to your principles and lose, or play the game and win.

Lyssa Grant Hughes (Christine Lahti, "Chicago Hope", 2001 Golden Globe nominee for this role), he has given blood, sweat and tears to build a name for herself as a doctor. As a respected physician promoting women's health issues and fighting for women's rights, she has decided to set her sights on a career in politics.

When a family friend tips a reporter about a minor indiscretion in her past, Lyssa's campaign quickly becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy. Desperate for headlines and ratings, the press will stop at nothing to find a scandal and destroy her reputation. Denounced by the newspapers as a spoiled, out of touch aristocrat, dismissed as selfish by the talk shows, Lyssa's only hope is her father, a powerful politician. When he rallies his spin doctors and consultants to rescue her, Lyssa is f-rced to make a choice... speak her mind and preserve her self-respect at the risk of losing the election, or swallow her pride to play the media's game. Either way, she loses something precious.