Plot Summary. 1  Drama about airline pilot who is married to two separate women in separate towns and who eventually takes on a third wife. 2  Nick Rawlings is a commercial airline pilot who has a stable home life in Dallas with wife of 16 years, JoBeth, and their son. He has also been married for three years to Allison, a Chicago business executive, and is about to tie the knot with a young blonde named Miriam who lives with her father in Hawaii.