Avery Bullard, President of the Tredway Corporation has died. But he never named a clear successor, so the Board members must choose a replacement. The most likely is Loren Shaw, a skilled businessman, but some of the others don not like his calculating ways. But to stop him, they will have to find someone else they can back. Will it be the engineer Don Walling? That will take convincing, they don not trust his youth and idealism. And he isn not even sure he wants the job, he might be happier creating rather than politicking.