When Inspector Ruffing is sent to Ravenscroft, a remote country manor, to investigate a seeming accidental death, he finds a dark and confusing story, shadowed in mystery and riddled with lies, told by five very different women.  Will he be lured into their elaborate web?  Or uncover the truth, even if it means bearing his own soul?  A chilling and darkly comic tale by one of America's most prolific and respected contemporary playwrights.