This fictional family saga story takes place over twelve days in September 1994. The setting is Farnsworth College, a small liberal arts school located in Central Maryland's Catoctin Highlands. Nearby, there is a U.S. Army medical research facility called Fort Douglas.

The two main characters are twenty-three-year-old Kyle and his fiancée, Jennifer. Both attend Farnsworth College as graduate students. The fall semester has just begun, and Kyle, while cleaning an empty faculty office, discovers a locked file cabinet. He is curious and unlocks the file cabinet. Once opened, he finds forgotten classified files from the Vietnam War years. This begins their personal journey back in time. They soon realize the lies they were told growing up and are now facing a dangerous predicament, the truth: cover-ups, double-crossing, a missing fortune, and murder!