Plot: A lonely wife has become obsessed with Catholicism (although we find out early on that she was originally married to a now-missing Muslim man). As her loneliness increases, so does her religious fervor, to the point where she spends her vacation time walking through different (and sometimes dangerous) neighborhoods in a quest to re-convert all of Austria to Catholicism. Carrying her statue of the Virgin Mary and endlessly repeating the rosary, she eventually begins to engage in ritualistic physical punishment, such as self-flagellation, purportedly out of her love for Jesus. But a nagging undercurrent of repressed sexuality and transference looms large in her masochistic behavior, and when her Islamic husband returns by surprise, we see the real extent of her "Christian" behavior.
Alternative Plot: A devout woman's (Maria Hofst
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