In the run-up into the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers exactly what seems to be a little break-in at the Democratic Party National Headquarters. He's amazed to find top attorneys already on the shield case, and also the discovery of names and addresses of finance organizers over the accused farther arouses his suspicions. Subsequent to the Post's editor works with the narrative and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein into it, they find that the trail higher and higher in the Republican Party--and eventually in to the White House.