When disaster strikes during Pierpoint's 150th anniversary celebration, Eric is summoned to the executive boardroom, while Rishi, Sweetpea, and Anraj try to save their own skins on the trading floor. Across town, Harper's risky moves jeopardize LeviathanAlpha, while Yasmin escapes on a road trip with Robert.
In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends.