Relates the life of a beautiful descendant of Herod the Great, and events leading up to her Dance of the Seven Veils, after which her cruel mother coerces her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, an innocent man, on a silver platter.
Contains three plays by nineteenth-century Irish author Oscar Wilde, featuring the title work about a man who, as a child, was absent-mindedly placed in a handbag and left at the railroad station.
