Powerful financier Gregor Antonescu visits his estranged son, Basil, at his Greenwich Village apartment in an attempt to extricate himself from the most catastrophic disaster of his career.

After newspaper headlines report that the FBI are looking for Gregor, one by one his wife and business associates desert him. Only his son refuses to leave.

The play, set in New York in the 1930s, confronts the relationship between father and son against a backdrop of love, betrayal and high finance.