In a Midwestern city, a married architect dies suddenly of a heart attack—in the public company of his mistress, Trudy. Trudy’s long-absent musician husband, Ted, arrives, surprised to find Trudy still living in the home the dead architect built for her—and also having struck up a puzzling friendship with the architect’s widow, Geneva. Ted embarks on an affair with Geneva, and the play descends into tragic darkness as Geneva ruthlessly uses both Ted and Trudy to resolve her grief for a husband she never really knew.