This was a work that opened with many questions. Who really killed Drood? Where is Drood? And what is happening? The opera's scenes gradually resolve to an opium den, where a nameless man awakens from his drugged state and is fulfilled in the gifts of a porcelain man, a lascar, and a haggard woman. The nameless man listens intently to the drugged mutterings of all three companions, but instead finds them all incomprehensible, which seems to reassure him. Later he leaves the opium. Edwin Drood was a story based on a murder mystery where Drood was dead and his uncle was the prime suspect. The story was set in the cathedral city of Closter Ham. Drood and Rosa Bud, both orphans, had been promised in marriage by their parents. Edwin had an uncle who was also his guardian at the time, John Jasper, an opium addict and choirmaster, is Rosa's music teacher and is secretly deeply in love with her. In the play there were Neville and Helena Landless, who were orphans from Ceylon and were brought to the Ham cloister by their guardian. Neville had been attracted to Rosa and argued with Edwin over his callous treatment of his future wife. Edwin provokes him and Neville reacts violently, giving Jasper the opportunity to spread rumors about Neville's previous reputation for having a very violent temper. Mr Crisparkle; the minor canon, tries to reconcile Edwin and Neville, who then agrees to apologize to Edwin if the former will exonerate him. It was later agreed that they would celebrate together for this reason on Christmas Eve at Jaspers' house. Rosa, an orphan and also Edwin Droods' financier, her guardian, Mr.Grewhious, informs her that she has a substantial inheritance from her father's side of the family. fam...... middle of paper...... of the Royal Navy also an old friend of Crisparkle. Grewgious notices Jasper lurking nearby and watches Neville. Returning to Cloister Ham, Jasper meets Rosa, declares his love for her, and promises revenge against Neville for Drood's death. Rosa flees to London and confides her fears to Grewgious because she was terrified of Jasper. Meanwhile Grewgious finds her staying with Mrs. Billickin. Meanwhile Jasper visits Puffer, the opium woman in London and in an opium trance tells her information about a strange metaphorical adventure. Puffer continues to pay attention to the revelations and hearing that Jasper will return to Cloister Ham the next evening, beats him there where he meets Datchery and discovers Jasper singing in the Cathedral. Throughout the play no one is ever sure who really killed Drood. The mystery is still unsolved.