Ensemble drama, following the interweaving stories of guests and staff at a Los Angeles hotel on the night Robert Kennedy was killed. The various characters include a kitchen worker (Laurence Fishburne) who tries to persuade younger colleagues against seeking revenge on their racist boss (Christian Slater), a young man (Elijah Wood) who plans to marry his brother's girlfriend (Lindsay Lohan) to avoid being sent to Vietnam, an alcoholic singer (Demi Moore) and the married manager (William H Macy), who is having an affair with receptionist Heather Graham. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Sheen and Sharon Stone also feature in the star-studded cast.

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.