Into the abyss

The silence of the Romagna hills surrounds a stone house where a man seeks refuge from the anxieties of middle age. This solitary tranquility is interrupted by a series of lucid dreams that lead him to the ruins of the Chiesa di Sopra, where Reppa awaits him, an entity with the features of a medieval devil. What begins as a dreamlike dialogue on the nature of existence soon turns into a tangible reality when an ancient sickle, linked to a prophecy received years earlier in a Taiwanese monastery, mysteriously appears in the physical world.
The encounter with the supernatural assigns the protagonist a specific mission: to track down the only original, never-censored copy of Freaks, the 1932 cinematic masterpiece by Tod Browning. The search for the precious find winds through dusty warehouses and abandoned provincial cinemas, transforming a historical investigation into an initiatory journey. Through the study of the tormented lives of directors, producers and actors of the past, the man reconstructs a mosaic of ambition and suffering that prepares him to fulfill his task.