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American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。湖北武汉一家全托制寄宿幼儿园，一群天真无邪的可爱孩子在镜头前展现他们最真实的一面。他们会为了对父母的依恋而大声哭闹、会为了和小朋友偶然的争执大打出手、会为了穿不上衣服以及摆不好椅子而脾气大发、也会为了星期四和星期五的先后顺序讨论不休。孩子的心中没有对错，就如同一张等待书写的白纸却又不可避免地被强加了许多来自大人的既定价值观。孩子无所顾忌的言语，似乎也折射出一些不难捉摸的意味…… 本片2001年5月开始筹拍，经过3、4个月观察和准备于当年9月正式拍摄，历时14个月前期拍摄工作结束，于2004年3月正式完成后期制作，影片荣获第十届上海国际电视节最佳人文纪录片创意奖、2004年广州国际纪录片大会纪录片大奖。。