In his New England campus, a history professor George and his hostile wife Martha turn a cocktail evening into an unstoppable,
relentless tongue-lashing discoveries.
They return at 2am from a party, when Martha tells George, to whom she''s been married for 20 years that she has invited a young couple over: Nick the biology professor and his wife Honey.
Martha''s father is the university dean and he had told her that this would be important to meet. George gets upset for Martha to set a fact without consulting first and so the fight begins.
In the presence of Nick and Honey, the fight reaches the point of George strangling Martha. In response, Martha flirts with Nick and disappear with him into the kitchen.
The third acts opens with a bizarre monolgue by Martha, which gives George the cruelest idea: he "kills" their imaginary son, that was made up by them, who was supposed to celebrate his 16th birthday the next day.