An irreverent small cyclops falls in love, stumbles on a postmodern argonautica and discovers his true identity, before making a dramatic homecoming.
A small cyclops called Noughtaless lives on Sicily, an outcast without family, friends or memory of who he is. He falls in love with Galatea, a sea nymph. She finds his irreverent humour irresistibly entertaining, though he infuriates as much as he intrigues, and she mocks his aspirations by joking she'll be his - if he brings her the underpants of Eurydice.
The cyclops Polifemeo asks him for his help in an affair of the heart. When the ogre reveals the identity of the girl in question, things get out of hand and Noughtaless decides the time has come for a change of location. Soon hopelessly lost, he only just survives a series of encounters with legendary characters and hazards, ineptly sending up the exploits of Hercules and Jason and the Argonauts in the process. Eventually he descends into the Underworld, where he discovers his real identity... and rescues Eurydice. He goes astray again, but help is finally at hand.
The scene is set for a dramatic homecoming, in which he must find the courage to confront Polifemeo and take responsibility for his own destiny... and the lives of others.