Marcovaldo explores the life of Marcovaldo, an unskilled worker living with his family in a drab industrial city. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an incorrigible schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbours, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones.

Combining farce with fantasy and mixing comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life, Marcovaldo is a highly visual theatrical exploration of some of the oft-overlooked elements of modern urban living: nature, pollution, hardship, distraction, relationship and simplicity.