Set in the 1970s, The Odds Against Death is a two-act farce in which a simple romantic dinner for two becomes an evening during which five people are confronted with deceit, mortality, and deception. Thirty-something Meredith believes she is about to be proposed to by Hunter - her boyfriend of two years – and has prepared a special evening. Hunter is actually trying to break-up with her at the behest of his new, and younger, girlfriend. If that weren’t bad enough, Death arrives to claim Hunter, and the two women show the Grim Reaper that life is but a game.