From the run-up to 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 is amazed to find top attorneys on the defense case, and also the discovery of addresses and names of Republican finance organizers on the accused farther provokes his suspicions. Subsequent to the editor assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it and of the Post works with the narrative, they find that the trail leading higher and higher and then in the end into the White House.