Falstaff is an old, light-hearted puppeteer who, short of money, devises stratagems and intrigues to survive.
His puppets and marionettes, together with the children of the audience, laugh and enjoy themselves at his clumsy tricks, then help him put things right.
We thus enter a timeless world populated by masks, puppets and marionettes, which recalls photographs of times past with the vividness of the present.
A world where everything is a joke (tutto è burla)!