Ten strangers, attracted to an isolated stone off the Devon shore away in their normal lives. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts -- the improbably called Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen -- the weather sours plus they find themselves cut off from culture. Quickly, the guests, each fighting with their conscience, will quickly expire -- one , in accordance with the rules of the nursery rhyme'Ten Small Soldier antiques' -- a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with terrifying words of :'... and then there were none whatsoever.