Sometimes, though, the law doesn't seem so just. His friend Hardie Quinn is about to have his family home bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Hardie is not the only one affected: other homes, businesses and schools lie in the path of the road. Theo has to tell his friend the bad news: for once, the law isn't on his side, and there's very little anyone can do to end the destruction. Theo joins the campaign to stop the road. But when he stumbles on a terrible secret about the corrupt men behind the plan - a secret it is illegal for him to know - Theo must figure out how to keep the developers from breaking the law... without breaking it himself.

有時候，法律似乎是不公不義的。因為政府要鋪路，西奧的朋友哈迪昆恩的家要被剷平。哈迪家不是唯一一個受到影響的，在那條路上的家庭、公司、學校都會受影響。西奧得告訴他的朋友一個壞消息，那就是這一次，法律不會挺你……面對這些破壞，你只能束手無策。西奧加入反對鋪路的抗議行動，但卻無意間發現了一個可怕的秘密，關於道路計畫背後貪污人士的秘密，而西奧知曉這秘密是犯法的。西奧必須想出法子阻止開發者觸犯王法，並讓自己能夠安全脫身。