She plays Sally, renamed Tally, a young ambitious woman who sends a tape around dreaming of a job in journalism. Warren (Robert Redford) hires her, and gives her only small secretary tasks at first, as a trial. The first time she asks for screen time, to read the meteo, he accepts but she makes a mess. Warren believes in her though, and encourages her, gives her new tasks and teaches her how to be a good journalist. When it’s finally her turn to read the news, she gets upset at being considered Warren’s protegée, and goes away to seek a career on her own in Philadelphia, thanks to her agent Bucky (Joe Mantegna).
Before leaving for Philadelphia, Tally and Warren take their relationship to a new romantic level, revealing that they love each other.
Tally has now to deal with Marcia (Stockard Channing), the lead journalist there, but it’s not just that that keeps her back. She seems to have lost something, being on her own. Bucky calls Warren to come and help Tally and he does. He helps her find herself again, they start working together, and when she finds herself trapped inside a prison during a riot, he guides her from the outside and she makes an important coverage of the events. During that experience, Warren realizes that he has nothing more to teach her. She’s now a grown-up, professional journalist, and her career is bright.
He leaves for a war assignment, and she’s devastated when she learns that he has been killed there.
She can now find the strength to go on, doing what he taught her to do.
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