Abrakadabra

“What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes” - Harry Houdini

Magic is the art of making the impossible possible.

It is a bridge between the visible and the invisible.

It is the force that tries to deceive the spectator with incredible situations and defy all logic.

Magic is the science that aspires to reveal and know the hidden to the senses...

The hidden to logic... The hidden to reason...

Magic is chaos. It is a curse, a blessing and progress.

Everything depends on who uses it.

Magic is everywhere...

Around us...

Never forget it.

30 years later

You cannot enter sir.

Why can't I come in? I'm Lorenzo Mancini. Don't you see? I have a show to do!

How come I cannot...? - Lorenzo!

Let him through

Thanks fabrizio... what happened?

Come, follow me. You will not believe your eyes Lorenzo. You have to see this for yourself.

Does it have to do with my show?

Stay calm. I'm not going to cancel it. I have sold almost all the tickets...

Wait for me here.

Lorenzo...

Agent carusso wants to ask you some questions.

Mr. Mancini?

Yes?

I would like to know if you knew the victim?

No, it's the first time I've seen her.

Do you have any enemies?

Have you received any threats or noticed anything unusual lately?

It seems strange that the night before your debut a woman appears murdered on stage.

And where were you last night?

I was with antonella...

My assistant.

I'm going to need to speak with her.

Sir, we need you to see something.

Excuse me.

"Once again the local theater was the victim of horror..."

"The murderer caused the victim's death using the famous magic trick known as "the box and the swords""

what can I get you sir?

A whiskey on the rocks.

"Causing a slow and painful death. The police continuetheir investigation to determine the identity of the victim..."

"The murder occurred in the theater before the premiere show of magician Lorenzo Mancini..."

"Son of the prestigious magician "Dante the great", who died in an accident during one of his tricks..."

Here you go sir. - Thank you.

"In the very same theater 30 years ago. The death occurred during the trick known as "the bullet catch"..."

"Which has already caused the death of six magicians around the world and apparently, continues to add victims."

"In other news, the prestigious local record company "black widow records" will release a highly..."

Where were you?

I was checking that everything is in order.

You shouldn't be drinking. Tonight is your big night.

Calm down...

Are you ready?

There are millenary cultures that consider that every body inhabits a dweller...

A dweller that can bear the form of a demon... or a genius...

They give the ability to very few to predict.

To guess the behavior of other people...

Their knowledge...

Their emotions...

Their intentions.

In order to carry out this experience I ask you to concentrate...

Very good.

What you are seeing is a collection of diamonds and circles of different colors.

Observe.

Choose a circle.

I ask you to focus on the figure you have chosen and move to the left or right to the nearest diamond.

Good.

Move up or down to the nearest circle.

Now move diagonally to the nearest diamond.

And finally, move left or right to the nearest circle.

Good.

At this point I have no way of knowing at which figure you have arrived.

Or maybe I do.

Japan, the land of origami. The art of creating figures with paper.

But Japan is also the land of the samurai and of the geishas.

An old wise man once told me: "May the three never meet"

I don't understand what went wrong! Damn it.

We rehearsed a hundred times and it always went well! God...

I don't understand.

No, it wasn't your fault. It was me.

I took too long to appear.

Be calm.

Do I know you from somewhere?

Who, me?

Yes.