The will leaves everything to whoever can finish the jigsaw puzzle on the dining-room table.
Nobody in the family has been in the same room for nine years, and now they are snowed into the old house on Corley Hill with a will that reads like a scavenger hunt. The estate goes to whoever completes the five-thousand-piece puzzle their late father left half done, and the pieces are hidden all over the house, one per secret he kept. The eldest wants the house, the youngest wants the truth, the stepparent wants to be counted as family, the lawyer wants to go home, and the caretaker knows where most of the pieces are.
5 roles. You take one; your friends take the rest, and the narrator plays any left over. Anyone can bring a character of their own into a role instead.
The responsible one, who has run everyone's lives from a distance and resents that nobody asked her to.
The family's charming disappointment, who left at eighteen and came back only because the letter said 'in person'.
The second spouse, married to the father for six years, who is about to learn exactly how much he did not tell her.
The family solicitor, who drafted the strangest will of his career and is legally obliged to stay until it is settled.
The live-in caretaker who has kept the house, the garden and the father's secrets for fifteen years.