Sherman McCoy has everything: a top job on Wall street, a great apartment on Park Avenue, a wife, a beautiful daughter and a mistress. In short: he is “the Master of the Universe”. Until one evening, he picks up the mistress from the airport and gets lost in the Bronx; not the best neighborhood for two wealthy people in a Mercedes on a late night. The Mercedes is stuck on a ramp and two colored men come up to them with the question if they need any help. Sherman feels attacked and hits one of the men. The mistress gets behind the wheel and runs over the other man. Then, together with Sherman she drives away. They decide to not inform the police and that is the start of the way down of Sherman. His whole ‘empire’ starts to crumble away underneath him and his life will never be the same.
