Surprise!

Ella Wimsley is an ancient, retired actress who never forgets her featured role in the silent version of The Red Bonnet. The play takes place on the opening day of a Vermont Inn which Ella owns. Complications arise when she is mistaken for a chiropractor's mistress, the chiropractor develops amnesia just as his wife arrives, Ella's granddaughter stops by on her way to spend a weekend with her hippie boy friend and a missing patient from a local rest home tries to discover who he is. Prominently featured is a large ottoman where Ella tries to keep the doctor until she can bring him to his senses, but this proves an impossibility in the busy inn.