Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.

Bud Fox, an ambitious young broker, is lured into the illegal and lucrative world of corporate espionage after actively courting one of the biggest stock speculators on Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, who manipulates the market using inside information, until Gekko decides to target Blue Star airlines, the company where Bud's father has worked for twenty-four years.