Rumors

The guests at the deputy mayor of New York’s tenth-anniversary party expect an elegant dinner. Instead, the first couple arrives to find their host with a gunshot wound, his wife nowhere to be found, and the household staff absent. Hoping to avoid scandal, they begin constructing a story before anyone else can discover what happened.

Each new arrival adds another misunderstanding, another secret, and another version of events. When the police finally appear, the couples’ efforts to keep their stories straight become an increasingly frantic comedy of miscommunication, mistaken assumptions, and social panic.