Two sets of twins separated at birth turn a secluded bayou town on its head for the strangest afternoon on record when they unwittingly cross paths in Shakespeare's boisterous farce. The visiting twins from hated Syracuse find themselves greeted by strangers and given unsolicited gifts, the hometown twins native to Ephesus find themselves locked out of their home and inexplicably pestered by police and creditors alike, and the rest of the town is left seeing double and trying to sort out the incredibly unusual sequence of events...