Max and Harry, as well as Kayla and Velma, are struggling to find ways to pay for their last year in college. At a lecture on Civil War history, Harry and Velma are reminded of their own family's Civil War history. When the lecture notes reaches the end of the war, and discusses the legends of gold buried in the chaos, they latch on finding it as a way to pay for their education. Kayla and Velma keep finding their research being overlapped. They catch Max and Harry in their parallel investigation. After a rocky start, the pairs join forces. Now they have to account for over 150 years of history in order to find the one square foot patch of ground where the treasure may be buried.
