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A film about the return of exorcism to the contemporary world. Our world. Every year more and more people choose to define their malaise “possession”, in Italy, in Europe, in the world. The Church responds to the spiritual emergency by appointing a growing number of exorcist priests and organizing training courses. Father Cataldo is a veteran, one of the most sought-after exorcists not only in in Sicily, famous for his combative, tireless character. Every Tuesday Gloria, Enrico, Anna and Giulia and many other people follow, Father Cataldo’s  mass of liberation, seeking the cure for a disquiet which has no answers or labels. How far are each of us, believers or non-believers, prepared to go just so someone recognizes our unhappiness? What are we prepared to do to be released here and now? This is the story of the meeting between exorcism and daily life, where the contrasts between the ancient and the modern, the religious and the profane produce alternating disquiet and exhilaration. A film which is not about religion but about how religion can be experienced and how the cultural suburbs are still anything but marginal in contemporary society.