A motley crew of thespians and nerds lead a life of esoteric fantasies and repressed desires, until they are transported into a 16th century Gil Vicente play.

Gil Vicente, The Frog and The Ass is a tragicomic farce that explores themes of Portuguese history, identity, sexuality, love, and marriage. Afonso, a quiet man obsessed with medieval miniatures and the plays of Gil Vicente, is engaged to Carminho, a melancholic young woman who feels she never truly chose her own path in life — though she’s deeply devoted to her donkey, Moisés. When Afonso meets Celeste, a magnetic amateur actress rehearsing The Farce of Inês Pereira, an unlikely bond forms — part historical flirtation, part emotional escape. Carminho begins to suspect a betrayal and is consumed by jealousy. In search of clarity, she embarks on a hallucinogenic frog venom ritual with her increasingly unhinged best friend, Margarida. As tensions escalate, the characters' lives begin to eerily echo the very play that brought them together — until the boundaries between reality and theatre dissolve completely.