Borromini and Bernini – The Challenge for Perfection is the story of the architectural revolution of a genius who changed the face of Rome forever, through a personal challenge to convention and prejudice, with the humility to learn from the past in order to invent the future, with the courage to pursue an idea while paying the price to the end.

Borromini's style is recognizable, eccentric, different: it differs from that of his contemporaries and exudes an austere spiritual authority, with perennial allusions that evoke the infinite. But this is also the story of the most famous artistic rivalry ever, the one between Borromini and Bernini, and above all the story of Borromini's rivalry with himself: a genius so attached to his art that he turned it into a demon that devoured him from the inside, to the point of driving him to choose death, in a dramatic gesture, in order to touch eternity.

The documentary winds its way through the streets of Rome through contemporary re-enactments and interviews with experts of Borromini's art, leading an exciting visual as well as historical journey.