In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.
Susan's baby dies, and she is convicted for a crime she doesn’t even remember committing. Years later, out on parole and fighting to start over, Susan sees a photograph that stops her cold.
A quiet man’s life is shattered by sinister neighbours, leaving him to confront hidden horrors. In 1978 Chile, under the military dictatorship, Raúl Peralta, a lonely model maker living with his ailing mother, has his quiet routine shattered by the arriva
