7 Women and a Murder (2021) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

The father stages his death to observe how each family member would react. Along with his younger daughter, he devised a social experiment to determine who would mourn him out of genuine love and who would be primarily concerned with money and inheritance.

Foreshadowing: Earlier scenes show the father observing his family closely, hinting at his ulterior motives.

• father fake death
• experiment
• younger daughter
• family test

The grandmother reveals that the older daughter, who returned home pregnant, is not the father's biological child. This explosive secret threatens to unravel the family's understanding of their relationships.

• grandmother secret
• paternity
• older daughter pregnancy
• family secret

After the grandmother reveals the paternity secret, the mother strikes the older daughter unconscious to prevent her from revealing the truth to everyone. She then hides her in the storeroom to keep the secret contained and protect the family's reputation.

• mother hides daughter
• storeroom
• secret
• family shame

During the chaos of the investigation, the mother and the father's former lover are discovered kissing, their faces smeared with blood. This revelation exposes that the mother knew about the affair and had her own relationship with the ex-lover, adding another layer of betrayal and complexity to the family dynamics.

• mother affair
• ex lover
• kiss
• blood
• secret relationship

The father does not die from the initial stabbing. During the confusion, he fakes his death to test his family. However, when he overhears the family's chaotic reactions and discussions about money, he becomes Despondent and jumps from the terrace in his bedroom, committing suicide.

Foreshadowing: The father stages his death early in the story, establishing that he is capable of manipulating the situation.

• father death
• suicide
• terrace
• jump
• fake death

The father commits suicide after overhearing the family's reactions during his faked death. He realizes that some family members are more concerned with money and inheritance than with genuine grief, which devastates him and leads him to take his own life.

• father suicide
• reason
• money
• inheritance
• disappointment

The younger daughter was fully aware of her father's plan and helped orchestrate the entire setup. She confesses that the night was a calculated experiment between her and the father to test which family members would show genuine love and which would be motivated by financial gain.

• younger daughter
• plot
• father plan
• experiment
• confession

After discovering the father's body, the women call the police inspector and report the death as suicide, attributing it to financial troubles and the night's emotional turmoil. This allows them to close the case without further investigation into the family's complicated dynamics.

• police
• suicide report
• inspector
• cover up
• case closed

Rather than dispersing or fighting over the inheritance, the seven women choose to stay together in the family home. They pool their resources and use the inheritance to support each other, transforming the house from a site of secrets and conflict into a shared fortress of mutual support and unity.

• women unite
• inheritance
• stay together
• home
• sisterhood

The phone lines inside the house were cut and the car engine was tampered with to prevent anyone from calling for help or escaping. This was part of the father's staged murder setup, creating a locked-room mystery that forced the family to solve the crime among themselves.

• phone lines cut
• car tampered
• no escape
• locked room
• communication cut