Deel een in die Spel-reeks. 'n Langnaweek weg saam met haar man klink vir Zia hemels. Miskien kan hulle weer nader aan mekaar kom, mekaar weer vind, weer hulle saamwees geniet, na gees en liggaam, soos vroeër in hulle sewe jaar van getroude lewe. Maar uiteindelik is daar vier ander pare wat die vakansiehuis naby Dwarsboomstrand met hulle deel. Maar die meeste is mense wat Zia skaars ken, of glad nie. En selfs dié saam met wie sy al gekuier het, openbaar 'n sy van hulleself wat geheel en al anders lyk as die prentjie wat sy in haar kop gehad het. Net voor almal moet huis toe gaan, vind 'n tragedie plaas. Gemene spel word vermoed, maar kan dit bewys word? === A long weekend away with her husband sounds heavenly to Zia. Perhaps they can find each other again, in spirit and body, as they did in the early years of their seven-year marriage. But, in the end, they find themselves sharing the holiday house near Dwarsboomstrand with four other couples - people Zia barely knows, and some she doesn't know at all. Even those she has spent time with before reveal sides of themselves far removed from the image she had formed of them. Right before everyone is due to go home, a tragedy occurs. Foul play is suspected, but can it be proved?