 Pepper Dennis is a beautiful and ambitious reporter with her sights set on anchoring Chicago s top-rated evening news broadcast. Just when Pepper thinks she s about to land her dream anchor job, her hot new guy, Charlie Babcock, shows up in the newsroom and steals the job out from under her. Complicating Pepper s daily life is her needy and recently separated sister Kathy, who has moved in with her. Only Pepper s close friends and co-workers, makeup artist Kimmy and cameraman Chick, seem to feel her pain.