Of Love and Other Demons

Synopsis

On her twelfth birthday, sierva maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century south american seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles father cayetano delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until sierva maria joins him in his fevered misery.