Medical inventor, doctor, art connoisseur, and avid jazz enthusiast Dr. Matthew Dawson (MD), with his brilliant Israeli engineering friend and master of Krav Maga sidekick Dr. Alexiev Shaw have just formed MATAL, based on their latest magnetic stent device, and are about to raise some capital.
The day before Super Storm Sandy.MD is precipitously fired from his position at Mt. Sinai and returns early to his Long Island home only to catch his wife in the act! With nowhere else to turn, he seeks refuge at Shaw's nearby place. That night Super Storm Sandy hits and hits hard.
The next morning, MD gets a call from his wealthy Hampton neighbor, Charley Weisberg, a senior partner at Goldman Sachs, who is stuck in Asia and concerned that his Hampton estate is under water. MD agrees to check on the Weisberg estate (next to his vacation shack) in the little hamlet of Quiogue. To MD's surprise, he sees a famous, priceless, Jackson Pollock painting (Pollock No. 5), over the...