The invention; was it real or a hoax? Fact or fiction? Were the men who created it scientists or con artists? Only five people in the world know for sure. And two of them are dead.
Journalist Jack Lawrence traces the origins of an old myth back to the men who claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine. And by merely uncovering the dusty facts of their past, Jack and his colleagues at a dying daily newspaper are placed in harms way.
Some people will give anything to get the story. Others will do anything to keep that story from seeing the light of day.