Nothing Left to Do But Cry - Characters & Cast

To change history for personal reasons (saving his sister from an American boyfriend) and to assert modern dominance over the past.

Saverio starts as a frustrated intellectual and becomes the driving force of their historical interference. He moves from confusion to a messianic determination to stop Columbus, only to be thwarted by the immutability of history.

To find love and comfort, and eventually to just go home.

Mario is dragged along by Saverio but remains focused on immediate, personal needs like love and safety. His arc is one of romantic pursuit, culminating in his awkward courtship of Pia.

To understand the strange concepts Saverio and Mario are trying to explain.

Presented not as a god-like intellect but as a slightly slow, curious man who struggles to understand the duo's frantic explanations of modern technology, eventually 'inventing' the train based on their ramblings.