From the Seattle Public Theater web site, "George is a linguist who can’t find the words to keep his marriage from falling apart while his lonely assistant is so desperately in love she tries to learn Esperanto to tell him so. Meanwhile, the last two speakers of an indigenous tongue are mad at each other. Will their language perish forever out of spite? Language and love are the twin themes of this loopy excursion into the difficulty of finding words for what lies in our hearts. "