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LOGLINE:

A young and eager Father Montes travels to a seaport town to help two sisters overcome a demonic presence and perform an exorcism during 1965.

SYNOPSIS:

Sofia and Maria Santoro are two sisters discovering where their parents grew up and spent most of their adulthood before they were born. Sofia (22) drags her sister Maria (18) to New Greenwich Port; a small “New England” seaport town, even though the town is quiet and peaceful from the outside. There is something disturbing about the folks that live there. 

They soon realize that the town is full of cult members practicing Pagan rituals and things only get more disturbing from there. 

 Sofia and Maria Santoro are two sisters have immediate tension between them as Sofia wants to be there for Maria, after their parents' death and becomes her sole caregiver, and dragging Maria away from her life and friends. The town even though all peaceful and quiet; the townsfolk seem quite disturbing. Strange occurrences happen to Sofia and Maria (Dead animals on the doorstep of their Apartment, strange noises in the night, cult-like behavior). Sofia gets ill and possessed due to the demonic presence in the town.  Father Montes travels to the town to uncover the mystery of the town and help Sofia and Maria.  This will be Father Montes's most disturbing case yet. 

Sofia gets ill and starts showing symptoms of demonic possession; Maria is now having to race against the clock to save her sisters life; she acquires the help of Chief Exorcist of the Vatican Father Montes who must uncover the mysteries of the town and its seemingly devoted leader Reverend Dante