Berkley professor Dr. Julian Rome is a former code-reader for a government project known as Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. His skills are needed to assist Dr. Alexi Gierach in the Antarctic, where strange radio signals are detected. As Julian tries to investigate the hidden messages in the signals of a large unidentified object, he comes into conflict with his fellow scientists Dr. Michael Straub and Dr. Kate Brecher.

In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man, and ladies' man, in the business.