Friends and aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs – as extra in operas, living statue at a department store, and voice actor for bit parts, respectively – while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.