This is the story of the great American inventor and mechanic, Eli Whitney, whose inventive genius created an empire, and whose inventive genius defended a dream.

There are those, who from their earliest boyhood, to the day that they can move no more, work with one single minded passion, driven by one overwhelming compulsion, ignoring hardship, their minds intent on the goal they have created for themselves. Denying themselves all of the amenities, companionship, pleasure, comfort, relaxation. Those single minded men are few, but what they lack in numbers they make up for in intensity...