The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by “Froggy”  LeSueur, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training  sessions at a nearby army base. This time “Froggy” has brought along a  friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome  with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So  “Froggy,” before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an  exotic foreign country and speaks no English. Once alone the fun really  begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a  sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that  the minister’s pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging  revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn’t understand a word  being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and  sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for  the “bad guys,” and the “good guys” emerge triumphant.