In rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century, a 17-year-old girl named Mariette Baptiste enters a convent as a postulant, bringing her understated but determined religious fervor to the community of nuns. As Mariette begins to fall into trances, she awakens with stigmata that heal as suddenly as they appear, disrupting the convent's ordered life and evoking feelings of skepticism, jealousy, and adoration.
Mariette in Ecstasy
A young nun navigates the strict boundaries of her 19th-century convent, seeking her purpose and identity.