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Contemporary documentary footage of different puppet shows across Asia are interspersed with vivid street scenes that offer a present-day glimpse of the locations where Edward and Molly’s romantic misadventures unspool.

That same "uninteresting" persona was even lampooned by notorious ITV puppet show Spitting Image - a dubious honour usually reserved for heads of state, top ranking politicians and Hollywood celebrities.

They’re valuable corporate I.P., pitching products, starring in movies and reality shows and lending their images to puppet shows and holiday ice pageants.

“After any puppet show, the puppeteers in the audience immediately get up out of their seats and storm the stage,” he said.

They can leave whenever they’re ready, and announce their new identity, but only after they expel their stories before the others in a puppet show.