Bocca di strega

Italy, the 1970s. Two gangs of tomb raiders clash for supremacy in the billion-dollar trade in Etruscan antiquities, which travel from the Maremma to California, destined for collections around the world. Many of the Etruscan artefacts now on display in the most prestigious museums around the globe have a story behind them. A story like this one. Betrayal, revenge, greed, and love, true love, which, as often happens, steers events in unexpected directions. An all-Italian epic. 1972, Val di Cornia. Bardo is the best tomb raider around. Over the years, he has managed to build up a trade in Etruscan artefacts that travel from Populonia to the capital and as far as America. The sudden death of his wife is a heavy blow – Bardo cannot cope with the pain and disappears at sea. But first he leaves the secrets of his business to his son Giovanni. However, he does not have his father’s flair. As if that were not enough, the gangs of Tuscia and the traffickers of Rome see this moment of weakness as a good opportunity to take over the market… Bocca di strega tells the story of a world that has made the history of many museums: the fever of excavation, the rivalry between gangs, the upper echelons of global trade. And then there is the Italian province, inhabited by romantic land pirates leading double lives: family men, workers, craftsmen, who in just a few years have entered the international art trade. Not without paying the price.