St. Louis, 1965. Against her better judgment, Dian DiSantis, a burned-out hypnotherapist, takes on a new patient. Stuart Novak is suffering from neck pain, headaches, and bad dreams. When Dian puts him under and asks him to go back in time before the problems started, Stuart unexpectedly takes on a different voice and personality--those of actor and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Dian assumes that Stuart has read widely about Booth and identifies with him in some way. But her outspoken and open-minded secretary, Naomi, suggests that she may have another Bridey Murphy on her hands, that Novak may actually have been Booth in a previous life. Dian is contemptuous of this theory at first, but her attitude slowly begins to change when Stuart reveals things about Booth he couldn't have known otherwise--including what became of him after the assassination.

As the clues about Stuart's previous life mount up, so do the clues about what's really bothering Dian: she's terminally ill, and she finds hope in the notion that we may get more than one chance at life, maybe an infinite number of chances.

The play is based on an actual incident that took place in Kansas City in the 1960s.

The Duke of Beloeil keeps a tight rein on his mischievous daughters, Raina and Lina, but each night the princesses slip away to a dance at a neighboring castle and return with their slippers in tatters. Frustrated, the Duke announces that, if anyone can discover where his daughters go each night and what they do, he will give the clever lad half his lands and the hand of whichever daughter he chooses.
Michael, a discontented shepherd, learns of the competition from one of the failed suitors and tries his hand at it, with the help of a cloak of invisibility.