A CIA officer and an MI6 agents leave their respective fields of government intelligence to work in the private sector for two rival multinational corporations. As they each endeavour to secure the formula that will equate to untold riches for whichever company patents it first. As their employers become increasingly ruthless, their tactics more and more gritty, these two loners find that the only thing their various schemes can't cheat their way out of is the mutual attraction growing between them