When the mummies housed in a museum in Lodi, Northern Italy, mysteriously vanish overnight, the museum curator – a scholar and amateur magician, obsessed by symbolism – embarks on a mystical quest to find out what happened.

Meanwhile, in a nearby high school, two students are getting ready for a séance, slowly accumulating all the ingredients they need. When they finally sit down for they ritual, they have no idea who – or what – they are about to call forth.