Before mobile phone, internet and political correctness existed, a male business world existed. A time when the 70s International Salesman and ego ruled. With nothing to his name, Richard, a young Londoner and failed door to door salesman, stalked by rejection , tumbles into a global industry awash with riches. From the encyclopaedia cold call to the Manhattan boardroom it would be a fight of his life to retain his soul in face of rampant narcissism, greed and deception.
The shock of the first female account manager - Virginia Summersides (Ginny) alongside emerging computerisation meant the 70s Salesman was fast becoming an endangered species. Their conflict and strange relationship deepened when Richard co-erced into stealing company secrets at the behest of controlling super salesman Nigel Knight turned
to Ginny for help.
Fast forward to 90s "new man" Richard battling to save Saturn Corporation's biggest business and his career, winning him a place in their Sales Hall of Fame, but it all came at a terrible cost. In New York he was now preparing to go on stage to deliver the presentation of his life, would he expose the sordid truth and risk facing the dire consequences?
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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