The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre.
Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many year and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant againt the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begin crashing down around him.

hero of the film is called Mark Vita Kohl 's middle-aged man , he is a PhD graduated from Ivy League schools , a rising star in the company is also the ADM , the boss in the eyes
Darling and competent assistants. The mid-1990s , his pricing policy allows the company to earn windfall profits .
One night in November 1992 , ADM's senior officials to the FBI officers and Brian Shepard parameters disclosed in a regular meeting of ADM's and other competitors on lysine food additives given
Price tricky, Vita Cole also appears in that a regular meeting . So the history of the United States involve the amount of money commercial eavesdropping war had begun . The FBI's behest and support as a "spy"
Vita Cole secretly for the FBI several years of business intelligence , including hundreds of hours of audio, video and text information . In addition, he also secretly monitor overseas business , ADM
Tokyo , Paris, Mexico City and Hong Kong meeting made ​​a detailed record .
However, in the interests of the temptation , Vita Cole also failed to hold on their own , he also used his position to extort money for their own . For which he received the FBI's investigation , and has three times been in jail . Three
Years later, in his help , many white-collar workers in the ADM because of economic crime by legal sanctions . But the irony is , the Vita Cole is one of these people in jail the longest . 10 years later ...
The FBI is responsible for overseeing this case , government agents Dean Pisi Li went public in front of the whole society , he said: " Vita Cole is the hero of the whole society " .