The warmth of him the glorious warmth was fading by the minute. In a huge old school house by the sea full of precious paintings Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him & mourns. She knows that soon despite her being his sole inheritor Thomass relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives. & descend they do. The two needy daughters who were poisoned against their father by their defecting mother are now poison themselves. The family regard Thomass wealth as theirs by right with the exception of young Patrick who adored his grandfather & is torn between his parents & Di the interloper. The family know Dis weaknesses & she has to learn theirs. After all she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners & eccentrics she sets a trap to hoist the family members on their own greed. & on the night they are lured to the house Di will be ready. Or will she?