Infourteenth-centuryEngland,peasantgirlChristineCarpenterissoattractedtoastatueoftheVirginMarythatthelocalpriest(wholustsafterher)suggestsshebewalledupinthechurchasananchoress,aholywomanwithresponsibilityforblessingthevillagers.ButwhenthepriesthasChristine'
smothertriedasawitch,shedigsherselfoutofhercell,acrimefor...