Chauncey Williamson is in trouble. He's about to graduate from Dartmouth with a Classics major, no job, no love life and no clue how to get either. And someone is manipulating him to sabotage both endeavors. A solution appears out of the rubble of a terrorist attack. He's been warned to never trust the Deus ex Machina, but hey, he's desperate. So takes a job unknowingly facilitating money laundering through an ingenious Music publishing business...