As an adulterous triangle forms among an up-and-coming banker, his beautiful young wife and his predatory boss, Hochhäusler orchestrates a zombified ritual of seduction and repulsion, both carnal and financial. More than topical, The City Below peers into the glass canyons of the world of global capital and finds not just the malfeasance of todays headlines, but a deeper sense of existential unease and, in the stunning conclusion, even a glimpse of the apocalypse.