211A West 57Th Street

One day in June two young people apply for a job in a mysterious building on the billionaire's row of 57th Street in New York City. Unlike the other skyscrapers on the street 211A West 57th is a self-contained universe built for single family who are unknown to most of its inhabitants. There are schools farms restaurants libraries theaters a hospital industries high middle and low-income apartments laboratories gyms markets chapels its own post office a bank and 15 forbidden floors off-limits to the residents. It is a world fueled by gossip animated by scandal and powered by an unseen force. The building is capped by a glass dome enclosing a magnificent aviary filled with exotic birds including a world-renowned collection of hummingbirds.On the day the new employees are hired the aviary is in turmoil. A rare hummingbird has gone missing. The two find themselves swept up in the search and caught in a flood of events that almost destroys the building revealing its deepest secrets and threatening the lives of everyone inside.