Carter Page III, an openly gay charmer, escorts the wives of Washington's powerful figures to social events. When the secret lover of his closest female companion is found stabbed to death, Carter tries to spare his friend and her husband from public embarrassment by lying to the police. However, his good deed soon makes him the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Drama, starring Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lauren Bacall.

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.