The Greek island of Leros was for 20 years and more the site of the world's most notorious and brutal asylum for the insane. The Magnum photographer Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world.

This photographic story is a personal exploration of loss, separation, heaven and hell. Inspired by Pirandello s play Six Characters in Search of an Author, Majoli elaborates on the notion that we are all actors of life.