The play skirts about the fairy story of Sleeping Beauty. The story deals with the conflict between summer visitors to the South Shore of Long Island and two of the permanent residents who become entangled in their lives. The visitors have come for the wedding of a lovely young girl and a highly eligible young man. The bride-to-be keeps falling asleep when her intended discusses their future. Another young man kisses the girl and wakes her up with a vengeance. From then on, there is a battle between the kissing boy's mother and the two mothers of the prospective bride and groom.