In rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century, Mariette Baptiste, a 17-year-old postulant, enters a convent as a novice. Her quiet determination makes an impact on the small community of nuns, whose days are filled with prayer and farm work. Mariette's life is disrupted when she begins to fall into trances, awakening with stigmata that heal as mysteriously as they appear.
Mariette in Ecstasy
A young nun, having just committed to her sacred path, navigates the strict traditions of her 19th-century religious community.
