"JULIA MY DEAR! GIORGIO." So begin and end the letters that the famous director Giorgio Strehler wrote to actress Giulia Lazzarini, before or after a performance. The last recommendations, the last nods of love and fear for his actors. Then Giulia is left alone on stage, she and her characters. The film start…- Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humour to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in the society's daily lives.