The Well of the Saints is a three-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Irish National Theatre Society in February 1905.
The setting is specified as "some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago."
Martin and Mary Doul are two blind beggars who have been led by the lies of the townsfolk to believe that they are beautiful when in fact they are old and ugly.
A saint cures them of their blindness with water from a holy well and at first sight they are disgusted by each other.
The saint takes offence and the townsfolk banish the couple, who head south in search of kinder neighbours.