Via Dell’Amore

About This Script

Via Dell’Amore is a travel romantic comedy set across the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside. Nando, a buttoned-up Manhattan wealth manager, flies to Italy to ride La Dolce Vita — a real antique bike race finishing in the medieval hilltop city of Cortona — in place of his ailing Uncle Aldo. Within hours of landing, his rental car and race bike are stolen, his phone and wallet gone with them, and he is left on a dusty Italian roadside with nothing but a mangled bicycle and a map he can’t read.

Enter Angelica, 24 — a natural beauty with sharp instincts, a gift for survival, and a secret entry ticket to a gaming competition in Brooklyn that represents her only way out of the life that controls her. She hops on the back of Nando’s tandem and the deal is struck: she gets him to Cortona, he gets her to America. What follows is four days of wrong turns, crop-field detours, midnight campfires, stolen fruit, nuns on stripper heels, a dog with a loaf of bread, and a card game that reveals more than either of them intended.

Think Pretty Woman meets Under the Tuscan Sun meets Eat Pray Love — a road trip about a man who gave up on joy, guided by a woman who never stopped believing in it.

The Inspiration

“My husband Damiano and I met bike riding — we’ve cycled across the world together, including La Dolce Vita, an antique bike race through Tuscany finishing on a twelve-kilometer straight climb into Cortona. On our way to the race, leaving the Rome airport for the first time in my life, I was stunned to see the Strada Bonifica — the Road of Love. I mixed these two real experiences together. This is that story.” — Gilda Hauser Porcari, Writer

Theme

“Destiny is a choice. You can follow the path or you can let it pass. It’s never too late to get on the bike.”

The Characters

Why It Sells

• Italy is a proven box office asset — international co-production potential with built-in scenic appeal
• Forced proximity road-trip structure is the most reliably commercial romantic comedy engine
• Based on a real bike race and a real Italian road — authentic world-building that differentiates it from generic Euro rom-coms
• Strong female lead with agency throughout — Angelica drives the story as much as Nando

Script Details

Format: Feature Film

Genre: Travel Romantic Comedy / Adventure

Setting: Tuscany & Umbria, Italy — present day

Target: Streaming (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+)

Tone: Warm, offbeat, sarcastic — with heart

Comps: Pretty Woman  ·  Under the Tuscan Sun  ·  Eat Pray Love

Status: Script — available for optioning