The simple office space of 509 Bay Street appears humble enough for the average person who may happen to enter but the unlikely inhabitants are more than meets the eye. Here in Canada’s largest city, home to 2.5 million people and the financial nucleus of the east coast is a vortex where the delusional, the down and out and those destined for wealth all congregate and try their hand at life’s lottery… sales. In a setting reminiscent to Boiler Room a modest group of 200 employees each ply the trade of fast talk in an attempt to make “easy money”. The task required on a daily basis is easy but the job is not as most will find out. Converging from all parts of the city, Global Industries is more than just an employer that dangles the carrot of opportunity in front of greedy masses, it is representative of everything that the financial crisis that looms in the near future will show us is both right and wrong with our society. That we often chase the elusive dollar in pursuit of a happiness that cannot be purchased…while sacrificing that same happiness in the effort. But all that is in the future…for now the revolving doors facing Delroy Evans as he stands outside them are a test for him to try to make something of himself. Failure is not an option.

It is that feeling of desperation that has led him to the entrance to Global Industries where he stands at this moment in front of what he hopes will be his salvation. After a string of odd jobs with no longevity, a charming smile is the only skill that he really carries on his resume. 10 months of sending out resumes and filling out applications has yielded only one response and he is painfully aware that he has to make this work. A stranger in the city, everything is brand new and large….including the new job that he’s just landed after months of odd jobs and social assistance. As he walks into the office for the first time, he has no idea what to expect or if he has what it takes to survive in his new reality but he knows that he has no choice but to make it work. It’s the only option available as the concrete towers of the GTA have begun to close in on him while he desperately searchesfor a sense of purpose and a way to dig himself out of an unending downward spiral. The disintegration of his relationship with his actress girlfriend and the unexpected ending of what he thought was his dream job finds him making a new home in ‘the big smoke. All these thoughts immediately disappear behind the noise of 160 people all talking at onceon the phones as the receptionist leads him into the office towards the conference room for his orientation and a familiar face stares back at him through the glass…