Rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, are on the trail of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. Notes in its margin spell out in detail the Founders' intentions - the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights. With a search underway by both sides of the political spectrum, Peter and Evangeline know they must get the document first so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and cause America's history and future to be changed forever.