Thirteen friends gather to celebrate Vicky's birthday. This is the first time many of them have seen each other. Resentments, guilt, pain, and the fabrications of memory are revealed throughout the night. Shortly before blowing out the candles, we learn that Vicky's brother had died in a car accident during her birthday party... three years earlier.

If people from different parts of the world lined up their monologues, as if in a crossword puzzle, these monologues would eventually create a conversation.