A Game for All the Family

Justine Merrison, a former TV executive, along with her 14-year-old daughter, Ellen, and successful opera singer husband, Alex, move from London to the South Devon countryside. Justine, determined to recover from a hectic career that ended on a sour note, wants to leave it all behind and do "nothing." The family successfully settles in until Justine receives a series of seemingly crank phone calls from a woman with a lisp. With each call, though, it becomes clearer that the caller knows too much about Justine for this to be a case of mistaken identity. At the same time Justine notices that her relationship with Ellen is becoming strained. To find the cause she reads a writing assignment that had obsessed her daughter: a bizarre story, set in the Merrison home, of a young murderess named Perrine and the dysfunctional way her family tries to deal with her. Disturbed by a connection between the calls and the story, Justine begins what could turn into a perilous search for answers.