 Prince Doro, to whom Toto was betrothed in infancy, is reported to have been eaten by cannibals, so Portico has chosen the "highly respectable" Prince Caramel to receive Toto's hand.Caramel is already three days late for the wedding, and King Portico fears that he will not arrive at all.Prince Doro arrives after ten years shipwrecked "on a savage shore."