An exciting love story in the scenery of the Eternal City is a win-win texture for a novel. But The Lion's Dream is not just a novel. This is a reproduction through artistic means of a documentary story about how a young Dutch actress came to conquer the cinematic capital of Europe, and instead won the heart of the greatest director of all time - the incomparable Federico Fellini. Arthur Yapin is the largest modern Dutch writer and an incomparable master of the plot, but here he there was no need to invent anything - after all, the story he describes unfolded before his eyes.