Woody Allen’s kaleidoscopic comedy follows four stories taking place in the Eternal City, Rome: an American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome's biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage.
Woody Allen stars in the film himself, after his first acting role in Scoop (2006). For Allen, Rome is a place that was too vast to be contained in a single plot. “I felt the city of Rome lent itself to a number of diverse tales,” he says. "It was pregnant with possibilities. If you stop a hundred Romans, they’ll tell you, “I’m from the city. I know it well and I could give you a million stories.’”