C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he has provided his apartment to a handful of company executives on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director.