Ben Gates comes from a family of treasure hunters. Now his grandfather believes that the forefathers' buried a treasure
somewhere in the country and have placed clues everywhere but unfortunately the clues are highly cryptic and scattered
all over the place. Now Ben thinks he has found it but it only leads him to another clue which is on the back of the
Declaration of Independence. Now one of his associates Ian wants to steal it so that they could get the clue but
Ben refuses to do it so he tries to kill Ben. But Ben evades him and tries to warn the authorities about Ian's plans but they
don't believe him. So Ben takes it upon himself to steal it in order to protect it. And he does but Abigail Chase the curator
of the National Archives, where it is kept, discovers what he has done and tries to stop him but gets caught in the crossfire