Olivia Pope, a former media relations consultant to the president, is ready to move on with her life and opens her own crisis-management firm, but she can't seem to shake ties with her past. Pope's staff includes womaniser-turned-family man Stephen Finch, slick litigator Harrison Wright and hacker extraordinaire Huck. As she moves forward it becomes clear that while her staffers may specialise in cleaning up the lives of other people, they can't seem to do the same for themselves.