Las curanderas

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 latest 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.