The story of the film takes place on Wall Street in New York, when the economic crisis broke out in 2008. More precisely, the story took place inside an investment bank, 24 hours before they were about to declare bankruptcy. After reviewing all the information, the young analyst Pete Sullivan suddenly realized that the company's asset evaluation had huge loopholes. In other words, a wrong, or well-planned business decision made the company difficult. This investment bank purchased a large number of securities, but now the issuance of these securities itself becomes worthless, which is about to lead to bankruptcy of the bank.
After discovering this, the company's senior executives held a meeting overnight, hoping to work out strategies to save the company. Experienced stockbroker Sam Rogers, his boss Judd Cohen, and financial crisis analyst Sara Robertson all came to the meeting. Even the company's CEO John Turd rushed back in a helicopter. The meeting decided that the bank would sell these worthless securities at extremely low prices.
The company’s senior management is neither afraid of nor ashamed of these impending dangers in the financial world. When the stock market opened the next day, they would throw out all the bad assets. In this way, although investment banks can get temporary stability, it will trigger a series of chain reactions, and eventually bad luck will come to these investment banks.
