It's a story of slum dwellers facing eviction by Landlord who wants to demolish the old dilapidated building and build a hotel plaza instead The residents if the dwelling consider various options to evade eviction but eventually choose to kill the Land Lord. Once the collective murder has taken place, they make themselves believe that
are free now and masters of their own destiny. However, to their utter shock and horror, the Landlord knocks: again to serve them the eviction notice.
They think that the LandLord was not killed properly and has to be killed again so the murder series is repeated. This time they make it sure that the victim is really dead. They celebrate their liberation and plans for running the dwelling. The police arrive and round them up for murder. Only women and old people are Left behind.
The Land Lord knocks for the third time and those Left behind in the dwellings rise to strangle him for the third time. The play was written in the backdrop of the unending cycle of ruthless and despotic dictators being forced out of peoples struggle only to be replaced by other dictators.