Michael Flaherty, the Mayor's assistant in New York, has almost no free time. And where could it come from when he has to pull the mayor out of all sorts of vicissitudes and collisions around the clock, trying to preserve not only his image but the image of the entire administration. Flaherty's team is a crack squad: a slow copywriter, an anxious accountant, a hysterical press secretary, a gay African American man, and an ambitious but not very bright assistant with a Napoleon complex. With their talents and their own resourcefulness, the team will have to weather a flood of problems and stand up to the relentless press...