A group of adults are notified that they have won a competition to spend a night at the famously haunted Mermaid Hotel in Rye, Sussex. However they have not entered a competition and soon after arriving there is a murder and that they are locked in. The murders then begin in earnest.....

In a Dystopian future a long time imprisoned dissident escapes captivity. In one cold dark night, wounded, pursued he tries to reclaim as much of his former life as possible, before trying to catch the last train out.