The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.--

"When a manipulative carnival man develops a mentalist act and teams up with an equally manipulative woman psychiatrist to swindle the rich in 1940s New York City, it gradually leads to his ruin."--

A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side - a side that will ultimately be his downfall.

Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a willowy fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townfolk, the other an Asian gentleman, swept up in the tides of history.