When Don Quixote frees a gang of convicted criminals, he encounters Gines de Pasamonte, a rogue and a chancer. Pasamonte has written his autobiography, but left it in pawn in a bookshop in Barcelona, to buy himself better treatment on the galleys in which he serves. Once set free, Pasamonte encourages his fellow convicts to maltreat Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza - even stealing Sancho's donkey. Sadly, neither Cervantes nor Pasamonte ever found time to complete this story ... which Robin Chapman now does, in a most inventive and amusing way.