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Ferdinand Foy is a mid-20s Silicon Valley success story. Very successful, in fact. "On the fast-track to becoming a billionaire" kind of successful. He assumes he knows what he wants and wakes up each day as an in-demand CEO everyone wants a piece of. While appearing on a podcast, Ferdinand is forced to ask himself the question: Why do I want to become a billionaire? After which he takes a sabbatical from his successful tech company to go and find himself. His journey takes him across the USA and further adrift to Spain, England, Cambodia, Bali, and South America.

The story first appeared in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and was included in the many subsequent editions of that collection. It was also published in Papyrus in 1909 under the title of "Bisesa". A beautiful young Indian woman, Bisesa, has been widowed very young, and longs for a lover. An Englishman, Trejago, who is knowledgeable about things Indian, wanders into the gully where she sits behind a barred window, and has a flirtatious exchange with her.