Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
A poetic autobiographical film about Pablo, a rising actor torn between love, ambition, and an unsupportive mother, discovering that fame cannot heal family fractures or replace what's lost in the pursuit of success.