Twelve actors play more than 40 parts in this dramatization of the benchmark novel. Set on an air base off the coast of Italy in the latter months of World War II, Catch-22 tells an anti-war story of an American bombardier named Yossarian who is convinced everyone is out to kill him. Terrified that he will have to fly more missions than he was originally assigned, he hatches a bulletproof plan to be discharged: he tells the doctor he is unfit to fly by reason of insanity. Of course there is a catch to his being insane and discharged.