Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance the character of The Business seems even to Kate to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses allegedly a book of Leonardo cartoons several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kates job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley a ranch in Nebraska the firms secretive Swiss headquarters and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arms length. To take control she has to do The Business.