BURNING DOWN ROME follows four friends on their journey to rock super-stardom. They came to understand that the business was all a game. Nothing was real. Show after show, television appearances, interviews in every city… Living the dream was all that mattered. Until the day when none of them could remember what the dream was anymore. Caught in the maelstrom of media attacks, personal vendettas, and professional pressures, their band - Cry Baby Jake - ascended to the top of the rock'n'roll world where they held steady for six years. That's when the work related injuries - the behind-the-scenes mental torture, physical tolls and hidden truths of the industry that fans never see, set in. "Living the dream" began to unravel for Cry Baby Jake's leader, Aiden "Kid" Cade. His thoughts and emotions were drowned out by the millions of strangers crying his name - all of them believing they knew him intimately, but to him were strangers. He lost his inner compass. He lost his ability to reason. Eventually, he nearly lost his life. One band member saw it coming. Another ignored the signs. The third loved him through it all. While the world cheered for him, behind the scenes Kid was poised between overwhelming success and his feelings of crushing personal failure. In the midst of it all Kid fell in love, fell apart, and realized that making his way in a land of make-believe could either be deadly, or it could set him free.