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In the Italian city of Trieste there’s the Accademia della Follia, a world-famous troupe of actors with a mental condition. They stage two shows a year in the city’s most prestigious theatre. Ever since the mental hospital closed its doors in 1978, the mentally ill live no longer in an institution.
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Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.