Ferrous Industries is undergoing a catastrophic corporate collapse. The company took out massive loans to retool their furnaces for lucrative Cryo-Steel contracts with European energy firms. A sudden geopolitical embargo in South America cut off 80% of the world's Niobium—the crucial trace element for the steel. Ferrous's massive rival, Titan Heavy Industries, foresaw the embargo and cornered the remaining Australian Niobium market, legally starving Ferrous of raw materials. Now, Ferrous's massive furnaces sit idle (costing millions), subsidiary warehouses are full of useless valves, the bank is threatening to call the loans in 90 days, and Europe is burying them in failure-to-deliver penalties. Last month, the company failed to make payroll. Titan is offering to buy Ferrous's contracts for pennies on the dollar to completely consume them. Anne, the CEO's meticulously loyal PA of six months, is trying to hold the executive office together while grappling with the moral dilemma of whether to stay or flee the sinking ship, deeply perplexed by the CEO's eerie, unshakeable calm.