Set at the height of the Nasdaq boom, nine New Yorkers, representing a cross section of society, are linked by romance and commerce--and often both. Structured as a series of successive one-on-one encounters involving a prostitute, a carpenter, a bored socialite, a bisexual art collector, a struggling painter, an art gallery receptionist, a love sick student, a lonely telephone psychic and a desperate Wall Street trader, the tale circles back to the same streetwalker it started with, and each rendezvous delineates the enormous gulf between what we want, what we need, and what we get.