Movie Story : Ulrich Mott is an eccentric, versatile social climber who dreams of shaping United States foreign policy. With the encouragement of his carefully chosen, much older wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, he works relentlessly to make himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. Only Elsa's daughter Amanda seems unmoved by his charm, perhaps because she disapproves of her mother marrying a far younger man, or because she senses something more sinister behind his polished manner.