At midnight, in the garden, Jacklin Bogart finds the body of her cousin Antoinette stabbed in the back. As a witness, the evidence she can provide is critical to the police. As the police take charge, the backgrounds of the Crandall and Bogart families are revealed, seen from different angles. The characters come on focus. More than one member of the Crandall family has met with violent death: Was it suicide or murder? As more is known, the perspective changes, the confusion appears to increase, but perhaps it is the truth that starts to emerge.