Description

It is Christmas Day and a mysterious death and an unexpected birth are troubling Roote, the director of a Government ‘rest home’.

Who the patients are and what they might be suffering from, we never discover, but at the unstable, megalomaniacal and terminally insecure Roote begins to investigate, we find that the other members of staff are, in various ways, as mad and as dangerous as the people they are supposed to be helping.