A few years after their graduation from Princeton, Louis Baxter, who retired after sold his dot.com business, takes in college buddy William, who is desperately near the end of his trust fund after several fully-failed career attempts. Louis takes William along to L.A.s weirdest society event, the annual endangered animals benefit. To raise more money this year, a single dinner is auctioned off, and William bids his last capital on it. He wins, according to Louis, a shrewd business-networking opportunity. But hes love-spelled by Ithaca, who believes him to be the seeker, a long-awaited savior for the castles most secret reality.