Magical Nights

A nostalgic, playful murder mystery set in 1990s Rome that uses multiple unreliable perspectives and the golden age of Italian cinema to explore ambition, friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.