German spies infiltrate U.S. companies working on the Manhattan Project. The wife of a DuPont patent lawyer orchestrates a stateside espionage ring during Word War II designed to slow Germany's progress on creating a nuclear bomb. Photographic art becomes the vehicle through which she stages her elaborate plan. Set in Wilmington, Delaware along with other key atomic bomb locations, she interjects herself into a war of her own making. Along the way her path crosses other strong women, mostly lost to history and time.