Everyone has a secret... and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the nation;;;s elite and keeping those secrets under wraps. Olivia Pope, the owner of a successful Washington, D.C., crisis-management firm, adds Quinn Perkins, a young attorney with a mysterious past, to her staff. Quinn;;;s first assignment involves Amanda Tanner, a somewhat reluctant client who claims she;;;s been having an affair with the president of the Unites States.