When his family fortune is seized by the US Treasury, a privileged recluse seeks refuge as a wage-earner in the Paris bistro of a wounded grey market fintel broker, where they'll uncover the conspiracy that took down his family fortune... While surviving an ever tightening psyop.

SYNOPSIS:

PLEB — A one-hour Paris-based Drama (France + US coprod)

48 hours ago, he was truffle-hunting with his standard poodle in the wilderness of his family's $80M compound in Upstate NY, cooking elaborate meals for one. Now his credit cards are frozen and he's sleeping on a bench in Paris.

James Rothwell-Le Proulx de la Forêt is a 42-year-old recluse when his commodities-magnate father dies on a routine trip to Budapest—and the US Treasury's sanctions enforcement arm seizes the family's $15B fortune. James knows his father well enough to know the charges don't fit.

PLEB is a one-hour drama—Soderbergh directing The Night Manager in a 20th arrondissement bistro.

Stripped of his home and livelihood, James finds refuge as a wage-earner at the café of Marie Dubois—ferocious, wounded, and running a grey-market financial intelligence operation from a hidden office upstairs. Their first startling discovery: The seizure wasn't bureaucratic error. It was a takedown. Engineered by the family's trusted lawyer of 30 years, with a paper trail that leads to a shadowy kingmaker in London.

To dismantle the conspiracy and survive a tightening psyop, the deposed aristocrat and the bistro owner must outgrow the damage of their former lives, and master the rules of a power structure designed to erase people who refuse to quietly comply—without a trial, and without a trace.

Zachary Amzallag

Paris: +33 7 58 97 22 51 · Toronto: +1 (416) 912-4944

P.S. Zachary is a produced Franco-Canadian screenwriter and actor (AMC's Interview with the Vampire, Season 3, airing soon) with 2 decades experience in technology, finance, and politics—the machinery this show runs on. PLEB is one-third of a broader Franco-North-American TV universe exploring similar themes. If it isn't right for you, please feel free to pass it along or get in touch about the wider project.