Now a fugitive, Tess became Whittier's assistant to escape the police and learn what her daughter experienced.Īn abnormally skinny man who, following a masturbation accident involving a pool filter, lost part of his lower intestine.Ī reflexologist and homeopathic therapy expert who was once employed in prostitution based around her skills with reflexology. Upset Cassandra would never return to normal, Tess later euthanized her daughter by overdose, only to be discovered by the police. Learning Cassandra was at Whittier's retreat and that her wounds were self-inflicted, Tess becomes curious as to what her daughter experienced.
Her teenage daughter Cassandra suddenly disappeared, only to be found three months later suffering from severe physical and mental trauma. He amassed his wealth by convincing middle-aged married women to sleep with him by telling them that he was an eighteen-year-old virgin, then blackmailing them into giving him money in exchange for silence.Ī housewife turned failed amateur porn actress.
Though he appears to be a very old man, he is in fact a thirteen-year-old boy who suffers from progeria. The following are the 19 characters in the main narrative, along with the stories they tell:Ī rich man who is a wheelchair user owns the abandoned theatre and hosts the writers' retreat. To prevent Whittier from leaving with her, they drag Miss Sneezy back inside and break the lock, and continue to wait for rescue. Mother Nature, objecting that they need to wait a little longer for other writers to die and for someone to rescue them, stabs Miss Sneezy. Whittier unlocks the exit and leaves with Miss Sneezy, choosing her as the person he saves and offering her a new life.
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Informing the writers their three months have passed and that they are free to leave, Whittier notes that, by continuing to blame him for everything and playing the victim to extreme extents, they haven't acted any differently from the other groups. The eleven remaining writers eventually group in the main theatre, only for Whittier to appear and reveal he faked his death (with Clark's help) and has been observing the writers through hidden cameras. Clark included, the writers continue to sabotage themselves, such as destroying the lighting and wasting any additional food supplies they find. With numerous characters committing suicide, killing one another, or succumbing to their ailments, they continue to formulate their story whilst the theatre somehow repairs its broken utilities. Believing a great increase in their suffering will provide a better story for when they're rescued, several writers start to willingly engage in self-mutilation and cannibalism, doing so to give the pretense Whittier tortured them. With Whittier accidentally dying from a stomach rupture, the writers find themselves trapped without him. Since the characters are not co-ordinating their plans, they end up destroying all their food and utilities, forcing all of them to struggle to survive starvation, cold, and darkness. They then begin to individually sabotage the food and utilities provided to them, with each character trying to only destroy one food or utility to slightly increase the drama of their stay. However, the group (not including Whittier or Clark) eventually decide that they could make a better story of their own suffering inside the theatre, and thereby become rich after the public discovers their fate. The characters live under harmless conditions at first. In the meantime, they will have enough food and water to survive, as well as heat, electricity, bedrooms, bathrooms, and a clothes washing and drying machine provided. Whittier locks all of them inside the theatre, telling them they have three months to each write a magnum opus before he will allow them to leave. Clark are driven to an abandoned theatre. The next day, the seventeen characters, Whittier, and his assistant Mrs.
Whittier tells them to each wait for a bus to pick them up the next morning and bring only what they can fit into one piece of luggage (in particular, only what they feel they need most). After having noticed an invitation to the retreat posted on the bulletin board of a cafe in Oregon, the characters follow instructions on the invitation to meet Mr. The main story centers on a group of seventeen individuals (all of whom go by nicknames based on the story they tell) who have decided to participate in a secret writers' retreat, frequently compared by characters to the Villa Diodati retreat of 1816. Each of the book's chapters contains three sections: a story chapter, which acts as a framing device for the otherwise unconnected short stories a poem about a particular writer on the tour, its author being unspecified and the short story written by that writer.
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