Frances Angel drunk & disgruntled arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario & returning to a distant & painful past. She falls into an eclectic group of performance artists ex soldiers & a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Francis past to be played out on the worlds smallest stage. Francis expected to find some answers but what she didnt expect was romance & quite so much farce.