The great pantomime, featuring flags and small to medium puppets. With this comedy, Fo turns more than ever towards the great popular theater, bringing to light the large puppets of the Sicilian tradition (similar to the American Bread and Puppet Theatre).

The play is set in post-war Italy, after the fall of fascism, up to the events of May '68. Dominating the stage is a puppet-marionette representing fascism. The characters of the play ‒symbols that are born from or oppose it‒ either try to impose their power or respond to it, respectively.

The author, who views theater as a medium committed to serving the people, seeks an audience different within "the circle of the left," which allows him to make his satire more violent but also to underscore the struggle for the reform of the Communist Party ‒ the unusual possibility of a theater that engages with the masses is outside the plans and intentions of various typical organizations.

His theater becomes the place where all the young students and challengers who had almost forsaken the bourgeois theater for years come together.