From traffic control to Customs hall, from the airport manager's office to lay-over apartments in “Stewardesses’ Row” the rooms are filled with men and women whose private pressures and passions match the fury of the blizzard that sweeps across the runways outside... For seven hours of suspense, a blocked runway, suicide, pickets, an aerial stowaway, pregnancy, smuggling, mass demonstrations, and a psychotic with his home-made bomb build to a nail-biting climax…