Cosmopolis plot
"How far can he go before he goes too far?"
Eric Packer is a 28-year-old golden boy who is being driven around the streets of Manhattan. Eric is on his way to his father's old hairdresser, where he wants to get his hair cut. As one of Wall Street's biggest businessmen, he has just staked his entire fortune on the decline of the Chinese yuan. A wrong decision turns out: as the minutes tick by, his empire slowly collapses. He realizes that he has put his whole life on the line. Along the way, he finds himself in some bizarre situations and, overwhelmed by the events, slowly loses his grip on reality.