Film Commission Torino Piemonte

A noir documentary to delve into the secrets of violence, mysterious deaths and slavery of the criminal sect led by Gabriel Basmagi, known as the Papi, an obscure Syrian holy man who built his mission in Veneto in the late 1980s. The male voice of a middleaged man tells us the story in which he was implicated many years ago. Behind The Gate of a country farm, the Papi locks up and starves his maids, leads his eight-hour masses, punishes the mistakes of his followers with sadism, alienates families, preaches the end of the world and accumulates hidden treasures. Among the adepts is the seventeen year old Erica. The voice-off belongs to a psychologist expert of sects who, to save Erica and bring the guru to justice, dares to cross The Gate. The lifeless body of thepsychologist will be found hanged by the belt of his trousers on the stairs of the house. What we follow is the reconstruction (with original audiovisual archives of adepts and home movies) of an investigation made from the afterlife.