King Olav of Olavland and his Queen are making out a suitable suitors list for their daughter, Princess Gloriana. Twelve princes will be selected and invited to a grand palace ball, and Princess Gloriana will choose one to marry. It was the way things had been done for a long time. But Princess Gloriana was already in love - but the person she loved could never be on the suitable suitors list, because he wasn't a prince. But when the King rescues a mysterious stranger from his lake, a half drowned prince who has lost his memory, and brings him home to supper, Gloriana's feelings, their plans, and the dinner table, are thrown into utter confusion.