During the Revolutionary War, Hamilton and Burr vie for Margaret. Years later, they clash over compensating Loyalists. Hamilton has an affair with Maria, Burr's friend's wife. They leak Hamilton's letters, destroying his career.

During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.—[email protected]

No fabricated romance can excel for intensity the life-long enmity between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton that started when, as young men, Burr believed Hamilton had prevented his marriage to the beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe and ended only with the death of Hamilton in the famous duel, Mr. Weller has made a thrilling, pulsing story of the love affair between Hamilton and the lovely Maria Reynolds. Few modern stories can equal it for absorbing interest.—Moving Picture World synopsis