When not tending to the hotel’s over-privileged clientele, he muses over self-help books and draws life lessons from the game of chess. But Able’s ordinary life is upended when an early morning room service order leads him to interfere with Akudo, a sex worker involved with a powerful but dangerous hotel guest.

Julie and Nwabulu – two women who have been abducted – decide to tell each other their stories ‘to pass the time’. while they wait to be ransomed by their loved ones. In telling their stories, both women find that their lives cross at important junctures.

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day. What if the two most important people in your life hated each other with a passion?