House of Cards
Four strangers, one rigged card game, and a priest who keeps winning by accident.
The annual charity card tournament at the Hotel Meridian is fixed, and everybody at the final table knows it except the one person who keeps winning. A cardsharp, a fixer, a defrocked priest, and an engineer with a suspicious understanding of shuffling machines have one night to walk away with the pot, their dignity, or at least their freedom.
The cast
A cardsharp with a child's face and a bookmaker's arithmetic.
A defrocked priest who still hears confessions from anyone who asks.
A young engineer who built half the machines on this line and trusts none of them.
The hotel's own fixer, paid to make sure the tournament ends exactly as arranged, which it has not done once tonight.