The CEO of a national retailer is murdered, paving the way for his number two man to take over while continuing to cut more jobs, slash benefits and outsource support services overseas. But on Election Day, a young employee in a small New York town launches a bold and daring plan that will help the employees take back their company. The giant retailer is caught by surprise and by the time they grasp what is happening, the plan is solidly in motion and the senior executives are powerless to stop it. In Texas, a business professor challenges his students to find a way for small businesses in America to not just survive in the recessed economy, but to actually grow and thrive. One group of students comes up with a simple but brilliant strategy that once implemented is so wildly successful that it spreads across the country in a matter of days. Big retailers and service providers begin watching their sales plummet and they're bewildered as to why their stores have become all but empty with Christmas only a few weeks away. As the money flows away from big business and into the hands of small and independent businesses, panic in the upper echelons of America's top corporations turns to anger, then to revenge. The young people who started this now find themselves targeted for harassment, assault and even murder by those who will do whatever it takes to keep their financial empires intact.