In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Ca洪立仪rpenter 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 机甲护翼the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch,偶去也 she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.