In January 1974, against the backdrop of the Watergate scandal, a low-level government stenographer named Connie Lashley obtains a crucial tape of President Richard Nixon. She takes the ferry to the secluded town of St. Michaels, Maryland, to leak the tape to a reporter named Paul Marrow.

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In 1974, a humble White House transcriber's routine is turned upside down after discovering a vital piece of evidence in the Watergate scandal: a sole copy of the 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.