Marlie a dutiful assistant who dreams of being the theaters next great actor struggles to wrangle a flamboyant cast of characters for a closing performance of Las Amargas Lagrimas de Petra von Kant their adaptation of Fassbinders German text Dealing with Margo the theaters volatile director is always challenging but its critically so when Marlie has to tell her that the main electric panel has collapsed just two hours before show and she had to call the only electrician who could fix the archaic apparatus Frank Margos exhusband