Professor Andrija Krstic is a bright man pursuing leading edge research in semiconductor technology.

But when an opportunity for financing an Artificial Intelligence high tech startup presents itself, he embraces the opportunity even though the seed money is offered by an odd and somewhat suspicious Armenian oligarch.

Krstic finds himself trying to balance two disparate worlds―that of a high tech Silicon Valley startup racing toward the 21st century's technological future, and that of shady wealth rooted in the collapse of the Soviet empire.

The professor knows he must do the right thing while fending off the pressure from the Armenian oligarch who has probably told him too much.