In his first work written directly for the stage, the author of THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN created a hilarious and shocking clash of desire and reality. Into the home of a bourgeois family come two strangers on their way to a masquerade ball. The masters of the house take their visitors for long-dead friends. The sumptuous couple turns out to be a pair of jewel thieves fleeing the police, and the daughter is trapped in a melodramatic farce in which she takes the thief to be her ex-fiancé while her mother believes him to be the lover she has waited for these past twenty years…
