Mild-mannered C.C. Baxter, a Consolidated Life insurance company employee, has been working in Manhattan for nearly four years. To advance in the company, he often stays late, but only because he can't access his Central Park West apartment, which he lends to executives for their extramarital affairs in exchange for career advancement.

The Apartment
A cunning insurance clerk in Manhattan risks everything by using his apartment as leverage to advance his career, only to find himself ensnared in a web of office politics, personal scandals, and unforeseen repercussions.