Many years ago, on a dark and stormy night, the overdressed and enigmatic caretaker John Smith invited his closest friends, inventor Victor Kyam and his wife, Jacqueline, to a dinner to celebrate his birthday. A few hours later all the occupants in that house had been changed - some were clean, others mentally scrubbed forever by the events of that night.

So, what happened to the distinguished dinner guests on that evening? Perhaps, we'll never know. But two clues have led to much speculation ­ found outside the study window, a charred umbrella with a curved red handle and found inside the house, a blood-stained copy of "The Life Laundry: How To De-Junk Your Life"

For one person, this night represented an ending: an ending to one thousand years of darkness and an ending to ten years of light.

But, for everyone else, is there no ending of this one night of Hell?