The young Beatrice wants to test her fiancé Florindo's suitability for marriage before the wedding and therefore approaches him disguised as a man. The bitchy Tiodina loves the young poet Goldoni, but is to marry the rich Vega, which she tries to prevent with the help of the servant Truffaldino, who in turn hires himself out as a servant to all of them at the same time.
So a foolhardy game of confusions, misunderstandings and entanglements develops: Goldoni challenges Vega, furious with jealousy, to a duel, Tiodina drives her lover mad with her whims, Florindo does not notice that his own bride is luring him into a trap, only Truffaldino sees through the great confusion game, there is love, quarrelling, lying and suffering, until in the end everything comes to its good end.
This madcap comedy about lies and disguise becomes a lustful look into the abysses of the human soul, about self-deception, a poetic masquerade with one's own self.
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