The noir genre connected with certain telluric aspects already forms a great wealth of novelistic plots in which they sail from compatriots of Emanuela Valentine as Luca d'Andrea to the very Dolores Redondo. And it is that the call of Mother Earth is still capable, in these strange days, of reaching us with the sensation of atavistic darkness where evil lives like a beast in the forest ...
Who more who less of these authors always knows how to find a good claim; a starting point from the mythology of the day with its foothills towards the spiritual or the magnetism of a captivating landscape. On this occasion we delve into some figures that are installed in our shared imagination between the disturbing witchcraft, homeopathy and superstition: the curanderas.
Nothing better than some healers with its esoteric point to travel to the Italy of the most popular customs and ancestral wisdom. Because between them, from one to another, they pass great secrets that can include miraculous potions against all ailments or abominable crimes that should never be known.
Synopsis
Borgo Cardo, Emilia-Romagna Mountains, 2019. The community of a small town gathers to mourn the loss of a girl who was missing and whose bones were found in the forest, twenty-two years after her disappearance. For thirty-three-year-old Sara Romani, who has not set foot in the village since her childhood and has now become a successful surgical oncologist, this is a dangerous opportunity to reconnect with a past from which she escaped many years. before. Now, she just wants to forget the small town between the mountains, but suddenly another girl disappears. Her name is Rebecca and she is the last heir to the ancient tradition of healers.
For Sara, a thorough woman of science, this is the beginning of a descent into an underworld full of buried secrets, through streets, forests and houses that she had learned to erase from her memory. What is the dark mystery behind the centuries-old tradition of the curanderas?
In a wild race against time to find out who has kidnapped Rebecca and save her before it's too late, Sara must come to terms with a part of herself that she has hidden over the years, at the risk of getting lost in a labyrinth with no way out.
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