Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel chronicling the breakup of her marriage to investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN) is adapted for the big screen by director Mike Nichols and solidly acted by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Rachel Samstat (Streep) is Ephron's stand-in, a New York food writer who falls for and marries Washington political columnist Mark Forman (Nicholson) despite her initial misgivings. And it isn't long before a second pregnancy, separate homes, and the return of Mark's womanizing places a strain on the marriage that results in a bitter divorce and inspires Rachel's cynical musings on the nature of love, sex, and relationships.

　　本片根据真人真事改编而成，描述的是六十年代末期，一名在核电厂工作的女工有感于不合理的工作制度和环境，开始参加工会活动，并搜集核电厂危害公众安全的证据，使她的工友纷纷敬而远之，最后就在她决定要将资料交给记者的时候，她却离奇的死亡了。