In the next two hours, the Morning Post's unscrupulous editor, Walter Burns, is about to lose Hildy Johnson: his former wife and still the newspaper's best reporter. Intent on moving to Albany with her meek insurance agent fiancée, Bruce Baldwin, Hildy is bent on forsaking journalism to live a normal life with someone who will never take her for granted; however, as always, the manipulative editor-in-chief has to have the final word. Now, to win back both his top journalist and the love of his life, Walter has to act fast and try every trick in the book to talk Hildy into accepting one last story she won't be able to resist--the impending execution of the convicted murderer, Earl Williams. Is Hildy prepared to renounce her passion for journalism, and Walter, the exciting man who never stopped loving her?
