The play speaks of the quest for love and happiness among those brought up in violence. The play fast-forwards the nursery rhyme about the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe by 20 years. The children are now grown up and two of them, Jack and Jill, are back to meet the old woman. It becomes apparent very quickly that they both want revenge.
A popular nursery rhyme gets a reality check: just like in real life, the story of the children of the old woman who lived in a shoe, whom she whipped black and blue, did not just end there. Her actions caused them more than physical harm and time alone was not a good enough healer.
