Practices of Giuseppe Cpriani, exorcist in a village in Upper Irpinia in Italy.
"The idea for the documentary came to me during the inspection carried out with Annabella Rossi in the upper Irpinia. In Bisaccia, in the province of Avellino, I met a seventy-five-year-old magician and exorcist named Giuseppe Cipriani who fought the "sons of Satan", as he called demons or evil spirits, with uncommon vigor and using practices unprecedented even among exorcists, such as placing a rudimentary cross on the bodies of the demoniacs. At first I limited myself to filming Cipriani in action and interviewing him, leaving him free to state his theories, sometimes even interesting, as in the case of the distinction he makes between possession and a form of nervous fatigue. However, I was not very satisfied with the material to evoke the supernatural dimension that it seemed to me to characterize, I felt that there was more. I then began to wander around the city looking for other news and clues. This is how I came across a singular group of characters, in different roles linked to magic: the driver of the possessed, the blind woman who had frightening reactions to any sacred object, almost as if she perceived its power without seeing it, Giuseppe Sollazzo, healer and exorcist with an even stronger personality than Cipriani. Sollazzo, who became a Pentecostal in America and then returned to the country where he had gathered many followers around him, is also mentioned in a vehement sermon in which, in somewhat approximate Italian, he accuses the Pope, Roosevelt and Hitler of being children of Satan, and attacks in particular Rome, "the whore dressed in red". This country is truly extraordinary where there have also been cases of beneficial possession, by the Holy Spirit. […] The cemetery scenes are not directly linked to the central core of the documentary. These are very strong images that serve to introduce the subject, to prepare the viewer for the climate of desolation, for the desperate poverty of these countries. The sequence has its own logic: death refers to the precariousness of life which, with its help, calls for defenses of a magical nature."