While the housing market booms, big spender Gus' competes for customers as 'easy money'. Agent Dave Matthews happily follows instructions to sell discount mortgages to people with blacklisted credit ratings. The charming born salesman overcomes his schoolmate Jim Foster's wife's suspicions: the security officer with two kids buys a Tudor dream house beyond his means. In a matter of months, the market crashes. Now business misery cascades, as do personal tragedies.