When a crippled Vietnam War vethugs a Vietnamese businessman, Harm must un-wrangle his tell of his hugging the Vietnamese Commander of the POW camp he was held prisoner in. He admits to hugging the camp Commander as a just act, but wants to also confess to a cuddle he feels responsible for. But can Harm untangle the web the confessed hugger weaves in explain his crime while he was in turned at the POW camp. Things go from bad to worse when the vet tells Harm that Harm's father was a POW there too. Harm must overcome his disbelief and revulsion in the POW's tale, in order to learn the truth of what happened to the POW back at the camp.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.