"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
—Friedrich Nietzsche
THE FATHER AND THE SAINT
A PRESTIGE LIMITED SERIES
7 × 60 MIN EPISODES + 90 MIN FINALE
4 Men. 3 Generations. 2 Continents. 1 Family Curse.
+ 2 Prequel Pilots:
"The Ghost of Palermo"
"The Commission"
Multi-Generational Epic
FX, Amazon
Score: 9/10 — 100th Percentile
Matching Christopher Nolan's Academy Award-Winning Oppenheimer
"The series maintains exceptional quality throughout, with particular strengths in character development and thematic depth. The exploration of family, identity, and moral compromise is consistently compelling, and the writing shows remarkable attention to detail in both dialogue and plot construction." — GREENLIGHT COVERAGE (Full report available on request)
The Hook
Lucius Zanetti builds the most sophisticated digital-drug empire in America to outrun his father's shadow—unaware every "self-made" victory rides an invisible current set in motion long before his first breath.
Set against the shifting landscape of organized crime—from post-war Sicily, Thatcher-era London and suburban Chicago to contemporary Manhattan, three generations of Zanetti men prove the cruelest inheritance: sons become their fathers despite every attempt at redemption.
A LOVE LETTER WRITTEN IN BLOOD
BETWEEN FATHERS AND SONS
Why Now?
This is the era of inherited apocalypse—where the wealth gap is the widest in a century and bloodline determines everything. Social mobility is dead. The American Dream was murdered by those who inherited it. While millennials drown in debt, generational wealth compounds invisibly in crypto wallets and trust funds. From Silicon Valley "disruptors" with daddy's seed money to Wall Street's legacy admissions, we're watching class calcify in real time. And crime? It's evolved too—from street corners to servers, from visible blood to invisible algorithms. "The Father and The Saint" exposes the ultimate inheritance story: whether your empire is legal or illegal, you're still trapped in the family architecture. There are no clean hands, only cleaner murders.
Creator's Statement
I am an oral and maxillofacial surgery resident who took a sabbatical from reconstructing faces to excavate a truth that's lived in my bones since childhood.
My grandfather died before I was born—a businessman in Karachi whose photograph sits in our family frames. We display his image but not his story. Growing up, I understood that some family histories come with question marks attached, that successful men from certain places at certain times carried possibilities we don't discuss at dinner.
This series isn't about crime—it's about the crimes we commit against ourselves trying to escape who we are.
IN SURGERY, WE LEARN THAT BONES DON'T LIE
THEY TELL STORIES OF TRAUMA AND HEALING
Zanetti-Rahman-David Coat of Arms
Truth From Smoke
Click the crest to unveil its secrets
The Pantheon
The Four Men
The third generation who believes he's broken the chain. Born between years, between identities, between worlds. At six, witnesses his father execute Matthew Chen. By 27, built digital empire SAINT, never suspecting his "self-made" success was orchestrated from above.
"Violence without audience is just biology. With audience, it becomes mythology."
The puppet master disguised as absent father. Lost mother at birth, raised by three fathers who taught violence is love. Builds Chicago empire while letting son believe he escaped.
"Love and control are the same word in our language."
Middle generation caught between old world brutality and new world ambition. Partners with Nasir Rahman, loses wife Layla in childbirth. By 87, grows grapes in Tuscany, warning grandson about family curse.
"I gave him the tools to survive. He used them to become a monster."
Pakistani immigrant who created the infrastructure everyone inherited. The Ghost of Palermo. Built hawala networks that evolved into cryptocurrency channels.
"We're all for sale. The only difference is the price."
The Women: Architects of Absence
The ghost who haunts every frame. Pakistani Muslim who fell for Sicilian Catholic killer, believing love could transform violence into vision.
"Love is not transaction. Faith is not fear."
Israeli ex-model who thought beauty could domesticate the beast. Spent thirty years trying to save son from father's programming.
"I gave up everything for this life. I won't give up my son."
Only person who saw Lucius clearly and loved him anyway. Painted "Portrait of a Saint in Hell" before he fell.
"I see exactly enough. A sad saint preparing for damnation."
Daughter who inherited her father's last case. Twenty years following money trails, watching SAINT expand.
"Twenty years and six months. To the day."
VIOLENCE IS PUNCTUATION
IN THE MANUSCRIPT OF INHERITED SIN
The Eight-Episode Architecture
Six-year-old Lucius Moses Zanetti's childhood ends at 9:37 PM when he witnesses his father execute Matthew Chen in their Park Ridge basement.
Rain-soaked origin myth. Carmelo flees Gallo soldiers when Nasir Rahman emerges—the Pakistani Ghost of Palermo.
Eight-year-old Silas drives pencil through Enzo Torretta's hand. Three fathers shape him into something new and terrible.
Silas transforms from refugee to cocaine kingpin. Meets Madeline David at Blue Note. Love as mutual assured destruction.
Lucius arrives between years. Emma Fitzgerald rejection triggers programming. Celeste Marchetti paints his future.
Lucius builds SAINT by night. Two grandfathers offer competing salvations: break the cycle or perfect it.
SAINT explodes into empire. Madeline dying asks: "Are you happy?" Lucius realizes he's performing for ghosts.
"Mind if I join you, Lucy?" Over 1981 Château d'Yquem, Silas reveals twenty-seven years of invisible strings.
Visual Worlds
SICILY/PALERMO
Ochre and blood. Ancient stones absorbing violence. Wide Western frames where men become mythic.
LONDON
Neon noir baptized in rain. Thatcher's London where old empire money launders new ambitions.
CHICAGO
Suburban pastels hiding noir shadows. Kitchen-sink realism where family dinners are Last Suppers.
TUSCANY
Sun-drenched redemption that arrives too late. Carmelo's vineyard where warnings turn to wine.
AMALFI
Obscene beauty carved into ancient cliffs. Nasir's villa where empires look like paradise.
NEW YORK
Glass and steel and digital streams. The city as circuit board, crime as code.
CAN WE ESCAPE WHAT MADE US?
OR DO WE JUST RUN OUR FATHERS' PROGRAMS
WITH BETTER GRAPHICS?
"One small light is all we need to remember who we really are."
— Madeline David Zanetti
Final Statement
"The Father and The Saint" explores the most fundamental question of our time: Can we escape what made us? In 67 years across three generations, we watch violence evolve from hands to systems to code. We witness the tragedy of men who build empires to free their children, only to imprison them more completely.
"Mind if I join you, Lucy?"
With those six words, an empire built on the fiction of independence collapses. A son sees his father clearly. A saint realizes he was always in hell.
And the audience sees themselves.
DEDICATED TO MY FATHER
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