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In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate DC outsider, she joins the elite team who accompany the president wherever he goes, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forges friendships with a dynamic group of fellow travelers - young men and women who, like her, leave their real lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One in service of the president.

When Kate Campbell is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won’t be home for long; she’s got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she’s lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman - aka “The Prince of Sea Point” - has also returned home to prove to his mother that he’s capable of taking over the family business, and he’s promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time.

In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington, DC, when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. She joined the elite team who accompanied the president wherever he went, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forged friendships with a tight group of fellow travellers - young men and women who, like her, left their real lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One in service of the president. But as she learned the ropes of protocol, Beck became romantically entangled with a colleague, and suddenly the political became all too personal.

Ein einzigartiger Blick hinter die Kulissen des Weißen Hauses - und eine filmreife, wahre Geschichte mit Obama in der Nebenrolle. Sie bewirbt sich auf einen ganz normalen Schreibjob - und landet als Stenografin im Weißen Haus. An ihrem ersten Arbeitstag rät eine Kollegin: "Halten Sie sich von den Secret-Service-Agenten fern!" Aber gilt das auch für enge Mitarbeiter von Obama? Sechs Jahre lang ist Beck Dorey-Stein Teil des "Zirkus" - des engen Kreises aus Männern und Frauen, der den amerikanischen Präsidenten ständig umgibt, sei es in Washington oder auf Auslandsreisen.