While hiding in a wardrobe during a game of sardines, a group of guests is forced to overhear a cynical and sexually charged private conversation between their snobbish hosts. The tension rises as the hiders realize they have waited too long to reveal themselves, leading to an increasingly awkward and claustrophobic predicament.
ELIZABETH: Have you got rid of him?
MARK: Yes, he’s off looking for the others. God I loathe playing other people’s family games, it’s such a bore.
ELIZABETH: We’ve done long enough now. You said we’d be out by three.
MARK: Well why didn’t you just do the lie about the baby-sitter getting ill?
ELIZA
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