New York City, in the not too distant: Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a 28-year-old girl who finance bright dreams of living in a civilization ahead of this one, sees a dark shadow on the sky Galaxy of Wall Street, where he is the undisputed king. While being driven through downtown Manhattan to get a haircut at the old barber shop of his father, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan’s exchange rate: beyond everything I expected, destroying their expectations .