Anna Surratt is a teenage girl living in Washington, D.C. in 1865. The Civil War has just ended. She lives with her mother in their boarding house, which was recently under surveillance for housing people who were carrying information to the Confederacy. Anna isn’t tuned much into the drama of the house because she is in love with a young actor, John Wilkes Booth. Anna hears that Booth is back in Washington after having gone to Canada temporarily. She calls on him and decides to go to his performance, a rehearsal, that night. While at the performance, she slips out early, but she and her mother catch Booth later on, and he slips a package into her mother’s hand before running off. After Booth has shot and killed Lincoln, Anna is out on the street, unaware of her prospective lover’s crime, but agitated by her love. Someone on the street passing by tells her to shut up about her non-problems.