Overview
In this masterly black comedy the illusion'st Otto gives his best performance ever. When Marta offers he'self as victim in his disappearing act and takes the opportunity of running off with her lover, Otto convinces her husband, Calogero, that if he truly believes in his wife's fidelity she will reappear when he opens a certain Japan'se box; if he does not truly believe and opens the box, she will be lost forever. Calogero suffers four years of indecision and his denial of reality is so complete that when Marta returns of her own accord he does not recognize her. He is condemned to the'solitude of his illusory world.