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Italian newcomer Maxì Dejoie infects our fears of global pandemic to critical levels in THE GERBER SYNDROME. When a new virus strikes a TV crew reports events from ground zero in the Italian suburbs. The accounts of three people directly involved with the disease are revealed: a doctor, an infected girl, a young security agent. Naturally the authorities are holding back on the violent truth for our own protection. Dejoie plays it strictly low-key by making his film resemble a documentary, recalling the all-too-real horrors of real-life emergent epidemics such as the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak. Chillingly Dejoie understands that people's emotional reactions to tragedy are what makes a horror story unforgettable. Don't watch without a face mask.