Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor, sets out to explain how a small group of financiers became extraordinarily rich just as the credit crunch tips into a global economic crisis. He sits down with hedge-fund managers, private equity chiefs, and investment bankers, the same players widely blamed for the crash, and asks them to account for their earnings while ordinary savers and taxpayers absorb the losses. Peston traces the mechanics behind the fortunes: leveraged buyouts, high-risk trading, and fee structures that pay out whether a bet wins or loses. The film's sharpest point is the closing irony it lays out, that the very firms whose actions helped tank the economy are positioned to profit again, buying up distressed companies cheaply once the wreckage settles. Peston pushes his interview subjects on fairness and accountability, getting answers that range from defensive to unapologetic. It plays as a plain accounting of who won and who paid during the crisis, told through the people who did the winning.