WELCOME TO LA DOLCE VITA OF 1950s ROME Vivien Lowry's latest play has opened to a rapturous reception from audiences in London's West End. However, the critics' savage reviews soon call into question her entire career. So, when the opportunity arises for her to work as a script doctor on a film shooting in Rome's Cinecittà Studios, a world populated with the likes of Ava Gardner and Sophia Loren, Vivien takes it. There she finds herself caught between powerful Vatican censors and two very different men. Vivien must also face the long-buried truth of what really happened to her soldier fiancé during the war if she's to step into the future.