Guys in Polos is a fast, ridiculous, international action-comedy built around Francis Breathnach, a smooth-talking art authenticator whose taste is expensive, whose ethics are flexible, and whose survival instincts arrive approximately thirty seconds too late.
When Francis is hired by the eccentric Spumante Estate to authenticate a supposed Picasso tied to the family’s old-world legacy, he sees more than brushstrokes. He sees opportunity. Instead of simply validating the painting, Francis decides to maneuver the artwork through a private sale involving British friends, Spanish luxury, Russian creditors, family paranoia, fake paintings, real bullets, and a level of betrayal usually reserved for divorces and restaurant partnerships.
The story moves from Los Angeles to Europe and back again, colliding fine art with organized crime, old money, desperate friends, federal surveillance, and two tough Mexican-American sisters who may be the only people in the entire story with common sense.
At the center of it all is Francis: charming, vain, clever, cowardly, oddly lovable, and convinced that every disaster is merely a negotiation that has gotten emotional.
The Guys in Polos universe is being developed by Sunscope Entertainment as a comedy-crime property across film, television, books, and related media. The companion book concept, How to Sell a Picasso Without Dying: A Francis Breathnach Survival Guide, expands the story through Francis’s own hilariously unreliable perspective, turning the art-world caper into a satirical guide to greed, friendship, betrayal, and staying alive while dressed like a man who thinks valet parking is a human right.
