A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
From the beginning "I chose not to choose life", with nothing but heroin in hand, to the end "I'm cleaning up, moving forward, going straight and choosing life", with a windfall (from a heroin deal) in hand, he changed, getting sick of the past chaos and eager for the ordinary - "getting by, looking ahead to the day you die"...