A mysterious abduction brings back the faces and vicissitudes of a decommissioned Refectory. A real massacre, with mysterious contours, upsets the Theatre of Memory. A Hamletic murder brings to a climax a tragedy of hatreds and loves, in a company at the Elfo Theater. A corpse in the courtyard ends as a macabre joke an evening at the Salumeria della Musica. A pile of bones resurfaces in the attic of the Zelig, disturbing the sleep of a beautiful young commissioner.

In the mythical places of the Milanese show business and cabaret, the mystery is staged, and the investigators - the official and the unofficial ones - searching for the truth will find much more: ambitions, successes, excesses, defeats, betrayals. And a story bigger than them, bigger than all of them: the messy epic of a world that faced a shaky present and an uncertain future armed with a razor-sharp laugh.

This anthology is a kaleidoscopic tale in five acts (plus one) signed by such masters of suspense, entertainment and music as Gigio Alberti, Lorenzo Beccati, Elena and Michela Martignoni, Claudio Sanfilippo and Gino Vignali. Under the careful direction of Luca Crovi, the authors pay tribute to a golden age of Milan and its stages, weaving into the gripping plots of their detective stories the golden thread of memory.