A trama gira em torno do secretário do Tesouro dos Estados Unidos, Henry “Hank” Paulson (William Hurt, ganhador do Oscar), do presidente do Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke (Paul Giamatti, ganhador do Emmy pelo seu papel em “John Adams”, da HBO), e do presidente do Banco Central de Nova York, Timothy Geithner (Billy Crudup), que junto com funcionários do governo, integrantes do Congresso e os presidentes das maiores empresas do mundo, tentaram salvar a economia norte-americana do colapso.
Meet Will Duncan, a man who tells his young friend, Dusty, that “an honest heart is more valuable than any amount of money.” Will wants to marry his sweetheart, Annie, and he promised her father that he would save $10,000 to prove he can take care of her. Will never breaks a promise. As a scheming rival does his best to add to Will’s money shortage, there is no shortage of laughs. Through it all, Will proves to be constantly courageous—and frequently funny—example of honesty.
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
