Those guilty of causing the current economic crisis run throughout this book. But so too do the victims. So as well as the unhealthy speculative interest of the American financially wizard Bernard Madoff and the network of corruption surrounding Silvio Berlusconi, other, very different stories are to be found: the real and fictional characters take us on a journey through several countries and, from varying perspectives, the world of those who have taken a beating due to the market's arrogance is revealed. . By way of the interconnected stories that unite the book, we are witnesses to the perennial Japanese crisis, the Greek financial collapse, German power standing sentry, the non-negotiable hegemony of capital and a system based, above all, on consumption. A consumption that over time has turned us too into surplus products, out of stock.