Tristram St. Larence has returned home to Dublin after a period of self-imposed exile, to a city bristling with greed and hubris, as the international debt crisis brews. In the form of a mysteryious testimony, he recounts being drawn into acting as middleman on a business deal, trapped by a grotesque builder he's known since childhood on one hand, and a shadowy businessman he's never met on the other. As their overblown property development begins, we follow Tristram's dawning realisation that all is not well...