Firemen discover a man's body and a valuable stamp collection after a fire in a mobile home park on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. While philatelic experts try to understand how a trailer park resident built a collection worth three million dollars, the county sheriff-and the stamps-go missing. Soon, a chase that begins on Lake Superior and zig zags through the streets of London, ends on a yacht in the Aegean Sea, where the price of looking for rare stamps in the underworld is likely to cost a man more than money.