The Business Deal

The old man in the board room is no match for the three white businessmen in black suits representing the powerful Robby Toys Company. The old man himself can no longer run his own competing factory. He has to agree on every takeover proposal to at least acquire a roof over his head in return. This exhange is an autrageous bargain for the buyer. The contract talks about many millions, but the old seller does not seem to understand, while his black lawyer is blind and cannot read the terms. Maybe that is why the old seller has instructed his advisor to first answer all proposals with no. Only finaly, after several no’s, the old man overules his lawyer as the mighty toy manufacturer make a final offer. The seller will also get a small insignificant Toy Store as an extra under the guise his daughter can financially support him. Peanuts for the multinational. The youngest in suit, son of the tough Robby's owner, protests: Not Mother's shop. It is her lust and life. This does not help. Senior is heartless. He will ratify the business deal because of the millions which he will acquire. The Robby Toys secretary in the meeting room prints the papers. The business deal is done. Also the blind sollicitor signs the documents he can’t even read. Now it's time for the ruthless buyer and his discriminating attorney to celebrate his winnings with a visit to the acquired factory. Then the game is changing. The factory is in ruins and the manager is an old dog that never left the property, sleeping on the remnants of the assembly line. A transition to the Caribbean shows the old man also sleeping. He is the terrace of his new house. Suddenly it is questionable if he really negotiated much neater than the crooks. His behavior gets clear when his black friend, who is not blind at all, reads loud from a more than 60 years old newspaper report. He shows the young woman who enters the black and white photo. There are two little boys in front of a historic old Robby Toy Shop, a white and a black boy. The woman looking at the newspaper is the secretary who drafted the figurs and made the prints back in the meeting room as a Robby Toys secretary. She turns out to be the old man’s grandchild. Because she dislikes her granddad’s methods she does not seem too happy about his triumph. Her attitude changes as the newspaper article unfolds how the Robby Store originally was set up by her great grandfather and great grandmother, the old man’s parents. The boy on the picture is the old man in his young age next to his friend Charlie. “Robby’s Store was stolen by these man, with the same method we now used against them. An equal revenge,” the old man explains.