S1, E1: In the late 1980s, Katarina Tammi, an ambitious law graduate, searches desperately for her place in a world that is about to slip into a recession. She finds a job at Nokia, a Finnish telecommunications firm, whose charismatic - but slightly impulsive - CEO, Kari Kairamo, is expanding the company by buying up loss-making factories abroad. The Chief Financial Officer, Jorma Ollila, tries – but fails – to rein in Kairamo’s reckless pace of acquisitions: the company is clearly heading towards financial ruin. At the same time, Risto Salminen, an enthusiastic Nokia engineer, gets his hands on a brand-new Motorola MicroTAC phone. Risto decides to embark on the task of making an even smaller, more efficient and better-selling mobile phone. As it becomes clear how careless Kairamo’s business transactions have been, opposition to him develops within Nokia. Then, an unexpected tragedy occurs.