Don Antonio, the head of a theater company, fears the town council is about to transform the local theater into a supermarket. He awaits a critic?s review of his latest work?s run-throughs: the future of the company and stage depend on the critique. A young author arrives to propose Don Antonio with a comedy. The subject is the preservation of popular culture and its most genuine expressions. The screenplay and direction are rather stale, however; for their part, Caprioli and Giuffré each do what they can.