Australian icons Tina Arena and Paul Murcurio play husband and wife, mother and father, Rosalba and Sal Cavelli , in PROMISED, a sweet retro rom com centred around an arranged marriage in 1970s Australia.

Rosalba and Sal are parents to Angela and they have promised her in marriage to Joe and Maria Prima’s eldest son, Robert.

This arrangement was settled when five-year old Robert comforted newborn Angela, showing the two dinosaur fathers that this bloke could shut up an unruly female.

Fast forward to 1974 – Angela, now 21 is beautiful, intelligent and a modern young lady, studying English literature at University, with aspirations beyond the family pastry shop; Robert, now 25, has just returned home after five years abroad, studying law at Oxford. His return reignites both family’s passion to honour the 20 year old ‘promise.’

Problem: Angela has a boyfriend, a muso named Tom. Modern woman that she is, she nonetheless harbours romantic notions of being swept of her feet by the man of her dreams, not being sold off in a deal brokered by her dad and intended father in law.

Angela’s fury quickly turns to fear for Tom’s safety, at the hands of Robert’s connected family and reluctantly agrees to marry him. Once married, a considerate Robert begins to charm Angela, wooing her into honeymoon mode. But before consummation, there is a collision of events that undermine a fairy tale ending.

Princes turn into toads, charming becomes antonymous and green eyed monsters prowl the realm threatening happy ever after land.

Antoniette Iesue and Daniel Berini play the bewitched, bothered and bewildered betrothed with an easy chemistry, an acting alchemy that probably comes from being contemporaries at Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts.

Written and Directed by Nick Conidi, PROMISED delivers on its promise to illustrate love, like life, is never perfectly arranged.