The story is set in 1920 While on a brief visit to Sicily, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Luigi Pirandello Servillo has an unexpected experience which leads to him meeting two singular theatre characters, Onofrio Principato Ficarra and Sebastiano Vella Picone, amateur thesps who are auditioning for a new show alongside other actors from their amdram group This encounter between the brilliant author of quot;Six Characters in Search of an Authorquot; and the ragtag theatrical group will turn out to be the source of countless surprises