Some doors should stay shut.
1862. Somewhere in an English theatre, two brothers stand in shirtsleeves and let a crowd bind their wristsIra and Willie Davenport have spent four years letting crowds bind their wrists and shut them in a wooden cabinet, then convincing a grieving world that the dead speak through their hands. It's a trick their father taught them in a cupboard under the stairs, long before they understood it was one.
Tonight, the act they built to escape him is about to collapse under the weight of everything he left behind - a debt from his past, a man in the crowd who wants the truth more than the show, and a sister who was never allowed on the bill.
Inspired by the true story of the real Davenport Brothers. A family built on grief and performance - until the night the cabinet finally opens.