U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels' routine investigation at the hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island takes a sinister turn as the investigation unfolds.

Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....

Reverend Frank, hoping to lower the divorce rate by identifying incompatible couples before they marry, puts a young couple through a series of ridiculous challenges before agreeing to perform their wedding.