Directed By
Antonio De Palo
Runtime
Country
Italy
Completed
2016
Language
Italian (English Subtitles)
Category
World Cinema Short

Cain's Shadow (L'Ombra di Caino)

November 5th, 2025. Western metropolis. Young inspector Abel is grappling with the umpteenth disappearance: Angela, a 9-year-old girl, of whom there has been no news for two days. For more than ten years there have been many disappearances of children . Numbers assume alarming proportions; the police are indicted. Ada is a young woman of thirty whose daughter was kidnapped some years before. From that day on she has led a personal investigation searching for the truth. Eddi, a transsexual in his sixties, is the host of a late night radio programme. Together with Agnes, he founded an association that through various propaganda activities, including the radio, struggles to find the truth. On the night of November 5th the stories of these characters will be inexorably intertwined, leading us to a bitter and shocking discovery.

In the Sci of Relief program.

Sunday, July 17 at 3:30PM in DeBoest Lecture Hall Tuesday, July 19 at 9:00PM in DeBoest Lecture Hall