One night Wall Street tycoon Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) takes a wrong turn in his Mercedes, gets lost in The Bronx - and runs down a poor Black teenager. Rather than stop in a dangerous neighborhood, he leaves the boy to die. But this act of callow brutality begins a chain of events that will rock the global center of Capitalism and shatter the self-indulgent, greedy life that Sherman McCoy had believed was untouchable.