English title: Don't Torture a Duckling
Lucio Fulci
The life of a peaceful country is turned upside down by a series of mysterious murders of young children. The carabinieri carry out the investigations in a conventional way, as they request, ending up, first suspected, the "magiara" (Florinda Bolkan), a primitive witch figure dedicated to the darkest spells. The attention of the investigators then shifts to a young woman from the north (Barbara Bouchet), sent by the family to their homeland, to try to keep her away from the drugs. It will be a brilliant Milanese reporter, Andrea Martelli (Tomas Milian), together with the girl, to discover the truth.