Stephen Rojacj is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urgin him to kill himself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely seductive voice that Rojack murders his wife.