A faith healer's rise and fall expose the intersection of genuine trauma, manufactured miracles, and mass hysteria in a drought-stricken town.
When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle.
Ishmael Bernal
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