BROKEN ARCHES · ROMANS OUT OF TIME, BOOK ONE
The trailer, and scenes from the novel brought to the screen.
Rome, 1996. Four of Caesar’s soldiers wake beneath a ruined aqueduct. A young historian takes them home. Behind a plain door in the old city, an ancient Order has tended one fire for sixteen centuries, and it means to bring Rome back.
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They left Rome before dawn. By dusk it was two thousand years older. Eight days before the Ides of March, four soldiers of Caesar’s guard carry a bronze thunderbolt out of a household shrine, and wake in a city that has forgotten their gods and kept their roads. Carla Corvini has spent her life reading what men like them left behind. Now four of them are asking her for water.
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That evening, Carla drove the four soldiers home. Then her aunt came by with dinner. Maria Corvini raised Carla, buried a husband, and has never once been at a loss for words. In the hall she finds four large strangers in iron mail: one bleeding, one with what is plainly not a knife at his belt. Carla says she found them in the park. That is not an answer. Maria has better questions, starting with the obvious one.
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The next morning, Maria sends Luca to look at Carla’s garden gate. He finds Carla on the far side with the keys in her hand and four of Caesar’s soldiers behind her. Luca reaches through the bars to shake hands. The man on the other side answers with a Roman salute.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE ↗The films are made by the author with AI video and voice tools, from the novel’s own pages. The music is from the Romans Out of Time original soundtrack, composed by Roberto Campus. All the films are also in one playlist on YouTube.
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