Francesco Salerno

In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the pristine territory.

A Police SWAT troop is entering an abandoned factory where a sadistic serial killer named 'The Spider' detained his victims. The entire squad is massacred and for Doctor Leemen, psychiatrist and profiler, is the last unbearable defeat. So, he decide to leave the case and return to his ancient work in a Psychiatric clinic for teenagers. Here he treats Matthew, a sensible and introvert boy that awakes from a coma, who begins to have visions about the crimes of 'The Spider'. Matt and his friend Nick contact Hope, a young journalist that investigate about Spider's murders. Matching Hope's knowledge and Matthew's visions, they have the elements to resolve the case. Studying Matthew's visions and nightmares, they follow the killer's death's spiral from the beginning to the unavoidable face to face that hides a terrible secret.

Devastated and depressed by the death of his girlfriend Iris—brutally murdered by an unknown killer—Aristodemo purchases a life-sized sex doll named Persephone. He subsequently descends into a state of progressive delusion, eventually convincing himself that Persephone has come to life. As he spirals into increasingly extreme sexual acts with the doll, the killer who murdered Iris strikes again.

A boy goes to a hairdresser and reads a comic while waiting for his turn. The comic's episodes are interspersed with the boy's wait, which becomes increasingly dangerous and disturbing.