Commissario Michele Balistreri escapes his troubled past through sex, alcohol and gambling. His sole responsibilities are now a half-hearted investigation into the death of a South American student and a tiresome obligation to protect Claudia Teodori, a television starlet, from the many pitfalls of fame. As the risks to Claudia begin to mount along with her growing reputation as a star, the sorrows of Balistreri's past begin to intrude into the present.

Winner of the Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian crime thriller, Roberto Costantini's THE DELIVERANCE OF EVIL is a psychological thriller about an edgy policeman’s personal evolution --- or devolution --- as seen through the lens of a devilish case that consumed him early in his career and continues to haunt him 24 years later.