A coporation is competeing with a rival corporation and in order to get ahead they hire a voland to infiltrate the opposing company and cause problems by means of elaborate and undetectable espionage and subterfuge. A voland normmaly has legal or otherwise access to large databases of information like credit card numbers and SS numbers. A voland will do these things in exchnage for something as simple as an otherwise completly useless yet extreamly old object like a boot from a WW1 uniform.

phone: why don’t you go to sleep tommy it’s 2 in the morning?
tommy:why don’t you die you dumbazz