Forty-eight-year-old Jessie has always faced life's challenges head-on. She has spent her career helping her boss develop his quarry into a successful enterprise and has been rewarded with the task of running the business. Jessie learns that with all successes, there is sacrifice and pain. Arriving home from a stress filled day, Jessie's husband, Bernard, takes her out to dinner. After enter the Capital Diner, Jessie is engulfed with memories that take her on a journey of her life. As the evening and memories unfold, she looks back at small-town America with an open-mind, learning important lessons from her childhood. As she shares her epiphanies with her husband, she begins a transformation that restores her world - and her outlook on life. Dinner at the Capital is the poignant tale of one woman's journey through her past as she discovers the secrets to enlightenment, peace of mind, and true happiness.