Set in London in 1929, two young university students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo, murder fellow student Ronald Kentley as an act of their supposed intellectual superiority. With Kentley's body still warm, they host a party for his friends and family atop the locked chest where his corpse is hidden. Throughout the night, guests speculate about what is inside the chest. Tensions rise as Rupert, a former house master of Brandon and Granillo, grows suspicious about Ronald Kentley's whereabouts and the strange dining arrangement.
