A brilliant career of an eccentric inventor Robert Axel still brings him his multimillion dollar income. One of his inventions got into production with defects that lead to a ghastly accident. It amputated fingers of thousands of byers. After eight years of imprisonment, disgraced Axel is full of new ideas and ready to restore his collapsed empire and the brand name. But it turned out that he has neither house nor home. Everything that was achieved my hard work is gone with his ex-wife. Desperate genius dead has nothing but to invent an approach to his 22-year-old daughter, who is not eager to get close to him.