John and Christine have invited two of their friends for dinner at their home in London. Natalie arrives without her husband, distraught, having just heard that the plane bringing him home crashed at sea. Together with the potential widow, they wait with bated breath for news confirming whether her husband is among the survivors... and learn that they are the winners of that evening's super jackpot lottery draw. From that moment, the operative phrase becomes "controlling emotions". And that is just the beginning of an eventful evening, filled with twists, turns, and shocking revelations.
A play for 3 or 4 men or women.

Jean-Pierre Martinez is a French playwright and scriptwriter. He was born in 1955 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. He experienced first the stage as a drummer in various rock bands, before to become a semiologist in the field of advertising. He worked afterwards as television scriptwriter, and came back to the stage as a playwright. Today he is among the most played contemporaries playwrights in France. He wrote 104 comedies. Several of his plays have been translated in English, Spanish and Portuguese and are regularly produced in the United States and Latin America.