Martin Donner, a beset-upon hardware clerk, finds out about a company called "Future Trade" that arranges a trade between two people who want to trade their futures and their lives with each other. Donner agrees and trades with a businessman with a rich, expensive life with an attractive girlfriend named Francesca. However, after the deadline passes for him to back out, he realizes the catch - Francesca poisons him and his trade-partner knew she was planning to kill him all along.