Hilarity abounds as guests arrive at the Deputy Mayor and his wife's New York City townhouse to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The party never quite begins; the host has shot himself in the head (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing! His lawyer's cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as other guests arrive and no one can remember who has said what to whom.

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. At this irreverent sequel, many years have passed since Nora’s exit. Now, there’s a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind?