About Suburra: Blood on Rome
Suburra: Blood on Rome, Netflix's first Italian original series, is a stylish and operatic crime saga set in and around modern Rome. The story is sparked by a fight over a stretch of coastal land at Ostia, where the seaside meets the city: a development scheme worth a fortune that the old organized-crime world, ambitious local politicians and figures linked to the Vatican all want to control. When the deal stalls, the fragile understanding that has kept Rome's competing powers in balance begins to crack.
At the center are three young men whose lives collide as the deal unravels. Aureliano Adami is the heir to a hard, sea-facing clan that runs Ostia and is determined to defend its turf. Alberto Anacleti, known to everyone as Spadino, is the restless younger son of a powerful Sinti family who chafes at being overlooked. Gabriele Marchilli, called Lele, is a striving young man and the son of a policeman who is pulled into the underworld by debt and ambition. Wary rivals at first, the three forge an uneasy alliance to seize a piece of the action for themselves.
As their pact deepens, it draws them against the veteran power broker known as Samurai, who has long kept Rome's criminal, political and ecclesiastical interests aligned, and against a calculating local politician, Amedeo Cinaglia, who learns to play every side. Across three seasons the show widens from a turf fight into a portrait of a city where money, faith and politics are all for sale, and where loyalty, friendship and betrayal decide who is left standing. Treated throughout with a tragic, almost mythic tone, Suburra traces how its young protagonists rise, fracture and pay the cost of their ambitions.
