Where do you see yourself in five years? Tripper Mayhew is on his fourth dead end office job in five years. His choices have been narrowed down to career change or assimilation into the corporate machine. During a dry work summer, after a mysterious break-in at his workplace, his life takes a hard turn when the company hires a strange looking girl with a shady punchinello past. In the wake of a landmark presidential election and in a landscape of social unrest, Tripper gets caught up in a decades old national conspiracy involving corporations, sex, drugs, murder, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Oscar for Best Picture.