Peter Dickinson's business empire is global, expanding and all-consuming.

He is trying to pull back from its pressures to make space for his life with Claudia.

His business leaders have their own ambitions and drives for each of their areas, and see new opportunities emerging amid the sweeping changes he is planning; they also nurse bitter legacies of complex relationships, conflicts and dark obsessions.

Claudia is pulled by her own history, by her commitments and her unresolved feelings, causing tensions to rise as Peter's principles and even his businesses' existence are threatened in the new world he is trying to create for himself and for her.