A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Florinda Bolkan
as Maciara

Barbara Bouchet
as Patrizia

Tomas Milian
as Andrea Martelli

Irene Papas
as Dona Aurelia Avallone

Marc Porel
as Don Alberto Avallone

Georges Wilson
as Francesco

Antonello Campodifiori
as Police Lieutenant

Ugo D'Alessio
as Captain Modesti

Virgilio Gazzolo
as Police Commissioner

Vito Passeri
as Giuseppe Barra