Set in a mountain village near Naples, this five-act drama centers on Barbarello, a simple, mentally impaired youth whose outward gestures and speech obscure a troubled inner life. The narrative unfolds through brief scenic tableaux and an ensemble of villagers—relatives, a priest, companions and the poor—exposing a continual dissidence between characters' inner psyches and their external actions. The author relies on subtle, suggestive signs, domestic detail and religious imagery to render concealed emotions and moral tensions, offering a meditation on perception, compassion and the difficulty of making interior suffering visible on stage.