AMSTERDAM is a mystery about two World War I veterans and a nurse who uncover a plot in 1933 by rich businessmen to stage a fascist coup against President Roosevelt. Two World War I veterans in New York, a black lawyer named Harold, and a white physician named Burt, reunite with their wartime nurse, Valerie, to stop the plot. The businessmen want a general named Dillenbeck, who’s admired by veterans across the country, to lead a fascist march on Washington to oust Roosevelt. Dillenbeck agrees to speak at Burt and Harold’s upcoming army reunion to smoke out the plotters.