Returning house to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is within prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister Claudia, their mom has withdrawn in to the imaginary globe of her romance novels, Claudia’s fourteen-year-old daughter provides regressed to early child years and won’t keep her bed, and to top it all off, the family cat has made a decision to live with the neighbours.

As Chloe’s trial approaches, the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly fraught, and Margot begins to question whether someone else is in charge of Claudia’s death. Is Chloe taking the blame for the family’s sake? It’s not until a second murder that this pieces begin to get into place and the cat agrees to get back.