Movie Details
Cast & Crew
V
Valentina Milito
F
Federica Luna Di Taranto
Director
D
Davide De Conte
Director
F
Federica Luna Di Taranto
Writer
D
Davide De Conte
Writer
G
Giovanni B. Scaletta
Set Designer
G
Giovanni B. Scaletta
Writer
PIACULUM
DirectorsFederica Luna Di TarantoDavide De Conte
WritersFederica Luna Di Taranto
Plot
Against a backdrop tinged with red, a dark fairy tale tells Emma’s story. After killing, in self-defence, the man who raped her and branded her skin with a cigarette, the girl becomes convinced that she is a vigilante: every man who smokes appears to her as a threat to be eliminated, and she keeps a cigarette from each of them as a ritual trophy. She is convinced she is performing a sacred act of purification and justice to protect other women – a piaculum, in other words. But during her final murder, her mask as a protector crumbles, revealing the abyss of blind madness.
