In 1929 New York, your a rich orphan who had moved to your new house on Long Island adjoining the sumptuous mansion owned by enigmatic neighbour, the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby. After attending one of Gatsby's legendary parties you are asked by Gatsby to arrange a meeting with your friend Daisy, now married to the brutish. philandering Tom Buchanan, who was Gatsby's true love prior to war service. As you complies he comes to see that Gatsby, once a poor boy, has recreated himself as a fascinating millionaire purely to win Daisy back but the events of a drunken afternoon conspire to bring about an ending which is anything but happy.