The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller, a rock musician, and his agent.
Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords, and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored..
Black Comedy: The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed.
The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity.
The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus-pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend.
The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller, a rock musician, and his agent