A retelling of the King Midas story

Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.

A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.

Midas Junior inherits the Golden Rubber touch on his birthday and is unhappy because everything he touches turns to rubber. But when he learns there is a great shortage and need for rubber, he happily goes around turning everything to rubber.

Felix, a young advertiser, is down on his luck. Ridiculed by his boss and suffering from unrequited love he knows that something has to change, when the chance of a lifetime appears completely out of the blue. He acquires "The Midas Touch" - the ability to conquer every woman with a mere touch. Enjoying life to the fullest for a brief period of time, Felix quickly notices that evil forces are after his new "talent" and "The Midas Touch" soon gets completely out of hand.

该剧改编自1901年Jack London的短篇小说。讲述一个富有的商人维克多Victor被神秘组织以一种奇怪的方式勒索的故事。

A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does.

When King Midas is given the gift to turn objects into gold, he learns that there are things that are more precious than any gold in the kingdom.