As a result there is a lot of heartbreak and lamentation communicated between residents in stolen moments.
Marriages are arranged to manage social order. Life in Truro County is not disrupted by love for long. Their lives need to be lived a certain way to keep things as they are. Continually Semple must also remind Flamingo Road residents that a price must be paid. Semple's manipulations enable the wealthy and powerful who live on Flamingo Road - the town's most exclusive neighbourhood, to hold on to what they have. The crooked sheriff Titus Semple (Howard Duff) who is grooming Carlyle, railroads the mysterious Lane out of town. Carlyle, son of a respected judge and fiancé of Constance Weldon (Morgan Fairchild) - daughter of town power baron Claude Weldon (Kevin McCarthy) has a future planned out for him that the wrong kind of woman might jeopardize. She meets deputy sheriff Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon) and they begin a fling. Midway stripper Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines) quits the carnival before it leaves Truro County, Florida.
