Movie Story : Shandas River is an Italian horror film made in the spirit of the country's classic 1970s and 1980s genre cinema. Professor Emma travels to Voghera, a small town in northern Italy, to research the legend of Shanda, a witch killed on the riverbank in the early 1800s that gave the river its name. Her investigation takes a terrible turn when she falls under a magic spell that traps her in a single day, forcing her to relive it again and again, dying each time only to wake up and begin the day anew.