Clay Kaper, a successful and bon vivant American businessman’s biggest secret was the one that forced him to leave the U.S when his childhood friend and business partner, Kyle Bannon, fraudulently manipulated the financial records of their San Francisco based media company on the verge of a sale. Despite his apparent ignorance of Kyle’s actions, the Securities and Exchange Commission takes Clay down with him. Cleared of any jail time, but draconian restrictions placed on his livelihood, Clay heads for a fresh start in Argentina far enough from his hidden past.
Starting Metropolis Media in Buenos Aires provided Clay the perfect vehicle to the upper strata of Buenos Aires society. “Careful, Clay,” comes an ominous warning from a friend at the US State Department in Argentina, “we’re living in someone else’s house, playing by someone else’s rules.” But with a voracious appetite for revelry and profits, unwavering self-confidence and business savvy this mid-40’s expatriate is undaunted, but soon discovers how humbling and helpless life can be behind the exotic allure of this seductive cosmopolitan city shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
As Clay attempts to navigate the byzantine challenges of Buenos Aires, he is unwittingly ensnared in a maelstrom of deception, betrayal, corruption and eventually murder. Yet Clay, with an almost Ted Lasso-like positivity at least on the surface, takes it all on. However, as the story unfolds his secrets, misgivings and demons begin to surface.
Joining Clay on this journey is a cast of engaging and scheming characters ranging from local judges, politicos, lawyers, property developers and scorned psychotic ex-lovers. Additionally, there is his own team- a beautiful, Argentine businesswoman and company partner, a conflicted and ambitious editor, a deviously shrewd saleswoman and a personal fixer who may need fixing himself. Along with the “Godfather” of Buenos Aires, as he is known in the inner circles, the crafty U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and a powerful and wealthy woman from the largest oil and manufacturing conglomerate in Guyana, everybody it seems, has a clandestine agenda, and are all gunning for Clay, in a whimsical, riveting and deadly joyride that is at the core of KAPERS.
Not only is his Buenos Aires media company paralyzed by a cyber-security attack, there’s also an attempt to embezzle all his real estate holdings as well as a “fatal attraction” stalker coming after him full bore. Compounding all of that is the political fallout from Mettera – an environmentally dubious oil development and industrial project in Buenos Aires, that both the US Embassy and Clay’s primary financial backer are intimately involved with.
The cross-cultural aspects of this show make it limitlessly appealing. While American and global viewers will revel in the unpredictability of the characters, they will also be exposed to an array of South American personalities and experiences that are fresh, captivating and exhilarating. From geo-political chicanery to hedonistic excesses, the capers never end in KAPERS.