Status: We are currently seeking to secure independent financing to shoot this feature film. We are looking into a coproduction with several companies in Romania and Italy with hopes to shoot next year.

The true story of a 17th century convent, Santa Cristina, in Bologna, where wealthy and aristocratic women were sent to live out their lives so their fathers wouldn't have to pay hefty dowries.

These women did little praying. They wore make-up and jewelry, came with their servants and luxurious belongings. Needless to say the political and social dynamics of such a place were scary.

But mainly, this is the story of one of the nuns, Lucrezia Vizzana, Bologna's only nun composer who was bold enough to publish her music and who dared to challenge all the rules imposed upon her, by composing music in a new style and writing erotic texts.

Because her music was disapproved by the church and yet the convent published it and because of the many other vices within the convent walls, the Vatican sent clergy to investigate the entire convent. What followed was an absolutely fascinating story, about how these nuns fought back and finally stood in siege of the church and the Vatican Army. All of this got to Lucrezia's sensitive nature and she went mad.

This is also the story of her love affair with the monk, Don Alessandro Mannino.