Abstract:
Professor Grimes and his family plan a trip to Rome. A group of young Iraqis and an Arabic New York taxi driver, intent on revenge for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, meet at JFK to take over an airliner to fly it into the capitol building while the President is giving the state of the union address, thereby killing the president and most congressmen, senators and supreme-court justices. The terrorists take over the plane on which the professor and his family are riding. Professor Grimes must choose between his belief in non-violence and his need to save his family.