What drives a woman or a couple to buy a hyper-realistic doll that can be confused with a real baby to the touch and sight? Softness of skin, hair, weight and even expression: a reborn doll is a fascinating and at the same time disturbing object that, once picked up, can put even the hardest ones in crisis, unleash new emotions or stimulate old and real memories.

What do we know about this phenomenon, which has gone viral in the United States with over 400,000 videos posted on YouTube and which is also exploding in our country? Uncanny bizarre or therapeutic alternative or artistic manifestation?