Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple head into New Yorks 1980s gold rush where prospects & money seem to be flying everywhere & the best & the brightest vie with the worst & most craven for riches fame & the love of beautiful people. But the Calloways soon find out that what goes up must come crashing down both on Wall Street & at home. Brightness Falls" captures lives-in-the-making: men & women confronting their sudden middle-age with wit & low behaviour fear & confusion & just occasionally a little honesty & decency."