Fifteen years ago, honorable timber executive Thomas gifted his last hundred dollars and a brass plumb bob to Harriet, a destitute young girl stranded on the streets. Thomas's kindness is rewarded with monstrous cruelty years later when his unfaithful wife Grace, her secret lover Victor, and his three greedy stepchildren conspire to bankrupt his company and cast him out.
Penniless and broken, Thomas prepares to surrender his ancestral mill until Harriet arrives in a private helicopter at the head of a global investment syndicate. Honoring her childhood debt, Harriet buys out the mill's notes, reinstates Thomas's veteran workers, and ruthlessly forecloses on every luxury asset owned by his treacherous family.
