Paris, 1640. Cyrano de Bergerac, a Gascon soldier, duellist and poet with an enormous nose, loves his clever cousin Roxane but dares not tell her. When she falls for the handsome, tongue-tied cadet Christian, Cyrano lends him his words, writing the letters and whispering the speeches that win her, all the way to the siege of Arras. Five acts, in rhyming verse.