Witches to the North

Teo Sellari is a writer who has authored a book about witches, which is being adapted into a film. Gallio De Dominicis, the film's producer, reveals that witches are real and that both he and Teo belong to a special group called Disinnescatori (literally "Deactivators"), although Teo was unaware of this. Their task is to "neutralize" witches by headbutting them and then dragging them seven steps north, which causes everyone who witnessed the scene to immediately forget it-just as Teo had written in his book. Initially frightened and skeptical, Teo eventually accepts his destiny and agrees to help his colleague. In the end, Lucilla, Teo's sister-in-law and the wife of his brother Paolo, is revealed to be a powerful witch, and Teo is forced to strike her. He seems to want to retire from this strange profession, but the final, highly suggestive scene shows him helping Gallio win a remote-controlled sailboat race by swimming underwater for several minutes, using one of the powers granted by being a Disinnescatore. —over_the-world