Look at Michael Muhlhausen and you'll see an ambitious, driven, power-hungry executive in a hurry to get to the top. Yet his world comes toppling down around him one day when he is framed for the murder of his friend Osterwald. Michael, a top manager at the multi-national conglomerate Olson Foods, had been preparing the hostile takeover of a major competitor. Osterwald, Olson's chief chemical engineer, wanted to tell Michael something – but what? Wanted by the police, Michael has to find out what was so important that his friend should die, and that he should take the blame… Michael must go underground, since the cops have swooped down on his family and are observing his wife Charlotte day and night. Yet she herself is the key to her husband's rescue: Charlotte had been carrying on an affair with Osterwald and has access to some explosive documents. To get the material to Michael, however, she must elude not only the police, but also the men who are after her, her husband and their daughter. Having also murdered Michael's lawyer, these mysterious pursuers are desperate to get their hands on Michael and the documents Charlotte possesses – documents that contain a shocking truth about a hostile takeover gone frighteningly deadly...