Michael Marks is a successful advertising agent, obsessed with consumerism and climbing the corporate ladder. He takes more pleasure in buying a new car than in his wife's third pregnancy. In fact, he even appraises his children in terms of profit and loss Then a series of experiences and disillusionments begin to turn his life upside down...

When Michael's client is jailed for embezzlement, Michael learns that the American prison system is a business for profit with...