Jack Durgin is twenty-six, carrying $120,000 in cash, and producing a Coca-Cola commercial outside Rome. The job is supposed to be simple: a sixty-second spot at a train crossing, big budget, then home.
Coming July 1, 2026
Lights, Camera, Roma
Love and Power in Italy’s Greatest Film Dynasty
Mad Men meets Roman Holiday — with a suitcase full of cash and something about to go wrong.
Leonardo da Vinci Airport, 1981 — the job begins before Rome is awake.
Then Valentina walks into the casting session. She rides a dented Fiat through Rome’s back streets, cooks dinner on a rooftop in Parioli, drives him to Viterbo like nothing can touch them — and she happens to be the secret heir to one of Italy’s most powerful families.
Set in Rome in 1981, Lights, Camera, Roma is a story of desire, power, and what it costs to choose love inside a system designed to prevent it.
A private rooftop dinner in Rome — he is inside the moment; she is already somewhere else.
Written by the producer who carried the cash.