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00:00In a convent, Sister Mary prays to an image of Mother Mary for several minutes.
00:04Then she takes off her veil and moves the painting to hide some writing on the wall.
00:08After grabbing her bag, Mary sneaks into the Mother Superior's bedroom to steal her keys.
00:12Afterward Mary runs to the front gate and desperately tries all the keys to open it.
00:16At that moment four nuns start coming closer, and a terrified Mary finally manages to open the lock.
00:21Unfortunately the chain is stuck and she can only push the gate a little bit,
00:24so she has to move through a very narrow space.
00:26She falls as she reaches the other side and a nun grabs her ankle to pull her back,
00:30breaking Mary's leg by pushing it against the fence bars.
00:33The unbearable pain makes her pass out.
00:35When Mary wakes up, she lights a match and finds herself inside a coffin.
00:39She cries as she tries to open it but it won't even budge, which indicates she's been buried alive.
00:44Mary keeps yelling for help but nobody comes.
00:46Sometime later American novice Cecilia is in the Italian customs office, where a soldier is checking her bag.
00:52Another officer points out that she doesn't have a return ticket and that she hasn't learned any Italian,
00:56so the process takes longer.
00:58Both men think she's wasting her youth by joining a convent.
01:01She's then given her paperwork and allowed to leave.
01:03Deacon Enzo picks Cecilia up and they drive for hours through the countryside to finally reach the convent.
01:08The mother superior welcomes her in Italian and Cecilia doesn't understand,
01:11so sister Isabel translates for her.
01:13When mother superior asks Isabel to show Cecilia her room,
01:17Isabel tries to refuse but mother superior forces her to do it anyway.
01:20On the way to the room, Isabel shares that the convent was built in 1632 as a refuge for elderly sisters.
01:26The building is on top of the St. Stephen catacombs, which are off-limits.
01:30The duo walks through several rooms full of older women and Isabel friendly says hi to everyone,
01:35only to then tell Cecilia about the nun who will die next week because of a tumor.
01:38Cecilia is shocked by how casual she speaks about it,
01:41and Isabel explains that death is part of the convent's everyday life.
01:44When an elderly nun with dementia named Francesca asks about her father,
01:48Isabel brings her alone while telling Cecilia that it's better to play along with her delusions
01:52unless they get violent.
01:53Cecilia stops walking to listen to the choir and notices a nun staring at her.
01:57Isabel then drags her to her new room while sharing the schedule.
02:00When Cecilia says she's honored to serve,
02:02Isabel calls her sweet as an insult and warns her that this is a hard place to live in.
02:06Later when Cecilia is using the toilet, Gwen suddenly bursts into smoke in secret.
02:10They start chatting and Cecilia shares that her previous parish closed because of low attendance.
02:15She was then recruited by Father Tedeschi,
02:17who according to Gwen is very talented at finding runaways.
02:20In the evening, a special service is held so the novices can finally take their vows.
02:24The girls walk down the corridor with candles in their hands
02:27and Cecilia finally gets to meet Father Tedeschi in person.
02:30Cardinal Franco gives mass and talks to each novice individually.
02:33Tedeschi has to translate his words to Cecilia before she receives her rosary.
02:36She is happy to take the vows but hesitates a bit before kissing Franco's ring.
02:41Afterward there's a dinner party to celebrate the new sisters.
02:44Cecilia chats with Tedeschi,
02:45who admits he liked science when he was younger but eventually God showed him a path.
02:49In return, Cecilia shares that when she was 12 she went to play on the frozen river.
02:53Unfortunately the ice broke and she fell into the extremely cold water.
02:57The paramedics managed to save her after her heart stopped for almost 7 minutes.
03:01She believes God saved her for a reason and she wants to find out why.
03:04When Cecilia goes to the bathroom, she hears a strange sobbing voice.
03:08She follows the noise to the chapel and finds a woman praying on the floor of a room behind the altar.
03:12Cecilia comes closer to check on her and is shocked to see the woman's face covered by a weird red mask.
03:17Suddenly Cecilia is startled by a presence,
03:19but it's just Mother Superior who assures her that the woman on the floor is just a nun lost in prayer.
03:24Then Mother Superior grabs a nail from a box and reveals it was taken from Jesus' toe as she puts it on Cecilia's hands.
03:29While the woman talks about Jesus' suffering, Cecilia starts feeling dizzy and passes out.
03:34The next day, Cecilia goes to confession and blames her feigning on having too much wine,
03:38so she apologizes for disgracing herself in front of Mother Superior and promises to do better.
03:43The priest in the booth doesn't say a word, he just glances at her before disappearing into the shadows.
03:48Cecilia is staring in confusion when suddenly two hands reach through the wall and drag her back.
03:52A terrified Cecilia is dropped on a bed in a strange room and five nuns with red masks appear in front of her.
03:57Mysterious hands hold her face before a masked nun stabs her with a dagger,
04:01but at that moment Cecilia wakes up.
04:03When she looks around she's shocked to see Francesca staring at her from the door.
04:07Cecilia turns on the light and the woman disappears.
04:10In the morning, Mother Superior talks to all the young nuns about their new duties.
04:13A bored Gwen keeps chatting with Cecilia and Mother Superior has to scold her.
04:17Afterward Isabelle shows the new nuns how to do the chores in the convent,
04:21including washing the bedridden elderly, doing the laundry, and killing the chickens for dinner.
04:24As days pass Gwen and Cecilia become close friends and they have fun together during their chores,
04:29although they also have to watch many old nuns die.
04:32One day Cecilia notices Isabelle staring at her from afar but she quickly disappears.
04:36That night, Cecilia wakes up when she feels something and discovers Francesca cutting some of her hair.
04:41Francesca calls Cecilia blessed and says everyone adores her, but Cecilia doesn't understand her Italian.
04:46Then Cecilia takes Francesca to the infirmary and tucks her in,
04:49not realizing that she's being called Saint Cecilia.
04:52The blankets aren't big enough to cover Francesca's feet and Cecilia takes a closer look
04:56to find strange scars shaped like crosses.
04:58The following day Cecilia tells Gwen everything that happened and admits this place isn't what
05:02she expected.
05:03However Gwen says this is better than her last place.
05:06There was a boy who kept hitting her so she hit him back,
05:08and as punishment Gwen was sent to a support group led by nuns.
05:11They were her inspiration to become a nun.
05:13Suddenly Cecilia throws up so she goes to see Dr. Gallo, who runs some tests.
05:17While waiting for the results, Cecilia hears a noise and looks outside to find a mask non-wandering.
05:22At that moment a crow crashes on the window and startles Cecilia into looking away.
05:26After a quick look at the bird's body, Cecilia follows Mother Superior to the office where Franco,
05:31Tedeschi, and Gallo are waiting for her.
05:34A very angry Franco demands to know if Cecilia has been with a man and she swears she hasn't.
05:38Gallo confirms that when she arrived, he examined her and noted that she was still intact down there.
05:42Mother Superior adds that they haven't had any visitors lately before hiding Cecilia's red file
05:47in a drawer.
05:48Then Cecilia is taken to the infirmary and Gallo uses an ultrasound scanner to reveal that she's
05:52pregnant.
05:53After the initial shock, Franco declares that this child was conceived without sin and therefore
05:57is a miracle.
05:58However Cecilia can only stare at the screen in horror.
06:01Later Cecilia asks Tedeschi why she was chosen.
06:04Tedeschi points out that this could be the reason why she was saved as a kid and reminds her that the
06:08meek shall inherit the earth.
06:09Afterward Cecilia is given special ceremonial clothes and taken to the chapel so all the
06:13nuns can sing their praises to her.
06:15Five months later, Cecilia wakes up with morning sickness.
06:18She coughs out blood and is shocked to discover she's lost a tooth.
06:21Then she goes to breakfast and everyone stands up in her presence except for Gwen.
06:25Cecilia is given good food and told not to work because she must concentrate on the baby.
06:30Gwen mockingly says that they'll start to call her Mary.
06:32Later Cecilia is relaxing in the bathing pool when suddenly Isabel pushes her underwater,
06:36trying to drown her.
06:37After some struggle, Cecilia manages to bite Isabel's hand and freeze herself, but Isabel
06:42jumps on her and pushes her down again, saying it was supposed to be her.
06:46At that moment the nuns come in and drag Isabel away as she screams that they should try with
06:49her again.
06:50Afterwards Cecilia goes to the infirmary and Gallo confirms the baby is fine.
06:54She mentions what Isabel said and asks for an explanation, but Tedeschi claims that Isabel
06:58has been mentally ill for a while and he'll make sure that this won't happen again.
07:02Getting nervous, Cecilia asks to be taken to a real hospital with a real doctor and mentions
07:06that she lost a tooth.
07:07However the men don't think she'll be safe in public if the word gets out, so she must
07:11stay in the convent until the savior is born.
07:13Later when Cecilia goes for a walk, she sees two of the masked nuns at a window.
07:18At that moment a nun falls from the roof and everyone in the garden screams.
07:21Cecilia runs to check on the body and discovers it's Isabel, whose face has been completely wrecked.
07:26During the funeral, Gwen tells Cecilia that she doesn't trust this place.
07:29In fact she isn't sure if she can trust what's in Cecilia's belly either.
07:33Tedeschi interrupts them but Gwen ignores him and loudly calls out her superiors, demanding
07:37to know what's truly going on.
07:38She calls everyone a liar using dirty words so Tedeschi and Enzo have to drag her away.
07:43That night Cecilia can't sleep.
07:45Suddenly one of the chains on a painting breaks, leaving it hanging crookedly.
07:48Cecilia discovers that the image has been hiding a text on the wall with a Bible quote in Italian.
07:53She checks her own Bible and reads about Satan masquerading as an angel of light.
07:56Getting worried, Cecilia goes looking for Gwen but can't find her in the bedroom.
08:01Then she goes to the office to get her file, but the drawer is locked.
08:04She freezes when she hears a noise and sees a light in the neighboring room, but luckily
08:08it quickly disappears.
08:09When Cecilia finds a knife, she uses it to finally open the drawer and get her file.
08:14There's a newspaper article about her accident and some DNA test results.
08:17Suddenly Cecilia hears Gwen yelling and follows the noise outside.
08:21Her voice comes from behind a wooden door and Cecilia peeks in through the keyhole.
08:24Gwen has been strapped to a chair and the masked nuns are using tools to cut off her tongue.
08:28A terrified Cecilia steps away and someone catches her from behind but it's just Francesca,
08:33who gives her an amulet that she made with her hair.
08:35Cecilia asks her to help her leave, only for Francesca to tell her in English that she'll
08:39never leave the convent.
08:40The next morning everyone wakes up when they hear Cecilia screaming.
08:43The superiors run to her room and find her belly bleeding.
08:46Today is Galler's day off so Mother Superior wants to take her to the hospital.
08:49At first Tedeschi refuses, but Cecilia keeps begging for her life so he takes her to Enzo's
08:54car.
08:55After the group leaves, Mother Superior prays in Cecilia's room.
08:58At that moment she sees a feather on the floor and looks under the bed to find the dead chicken
09:02that Cecilia used for her fake bleeding.
09:04On the road, Tedeschi gets a call informing him of the truth and makes Enzo stop the car.
09:08Cecilia realizes the truth is out and tries to run away, but the men quickly catch up to her
09:13and drag her back.
09:14At the convent, Mother Superior makes Cecilia have a very cold shower.
09:17When Cecilia mentions that God won't forgive them for the way they treat her, Mother Superior
09:21slaps her.
09:22Afterward Cecilia is tied to a wheelchair and taken to the room behind the altar.
09:26By now she's guessed that someone here impregnated her and demands an explanation.
09:30Tedeschi grabs the nail and explains that they've found remnants of blood and bone on it, which
09:34gave them the genetic code of the Messiah.
09:36This could be the chance to bring Jesus back.
09:38When Cecilia calls him insane, Tedeschi takes her to a room where he keeps the jars with all
09:42the failed attempts.
09:43He reveals he's been trying to resurrect Jesus for 20 years and that he thinks Cecilia is
09:47the perfect vessel.
09:48Then they got to Tedeschi's lab and he explains that as a scientist he worked on genetics,
09:52but his peers disapproved of his experiments.
09:55Tedeschi became a priest because he knew the church would let him experiment if it meant
09:58bringing Jesus back.
09:59Enzo holds Cecilia's feet and Tedeschi marks them both with a hot cross.
10:03Afterward Cecilia is left alone in her room.
10:05When she tries to leave the wheelchair, her wounded feet make it hard to move and she falls.
10:09After some struggle she reaches the door only to find it locked, and she has a breakdown.
10:14A few weeks later Cecilia goes to confession with Franco and asks a lot of questions, but
10:18Franco doesn't answer a single one.
10:20While talking, Cecilia plays with her rosary and breaks a nail.
10:23She then pulls it off and finds her finger covered in a sticky substance.
10:27Franco finally talks to point out that if this wasn't God's will, then he would have already
10:31stopped them.
10:31A few days before the expected date, Gallo does another ultrasound and confirms that the child
10:36is moving.
10:36Gallo then goes searching for some medicine and leaves the door open.
10:40Cecilia uses the chance to grab a crucifix and repeatedly hits Mother Superior on the
10:44head until she's dead.
10:45When Cecilia leaves the room, she feels something wet and discovers that her water broke.
10:49Moments later, on the balcony, Cecilia surprises Franco from behind and starts choking him with
10:54her rosary.
10:55Eventually Franco drops dead and is seen by Gallo, who immediately runs away.
10:59After taking Franco's lighter, Cecilia goes to the chapel and feels her first contraction.
11:03Refusing to give up, she grabs the holy nail before rushing to the lab, where she spreads
11:08ethanol all over the floor and equipment.
11:10At that moment Tedeschi shows up and tries to come closer, but Cecilia pulls out the lighter.
11:14Tedeschi tries to make her see reason, pointing out that if she dies they'll just get another
11:18girl.
11:19His monologue is interrupted when Cecilia has another contraction and Tedeschi uses the
11:23chance to try to take the lighter back.
11:25Cecilia breaks a bottle on his head and runs out of the lab to lock the door.
11:28Tedeschi reaches through the window to grab her by the hair so Cecilia pulls one of his
11:32fingers to break it.
11:33When she notices the ethanol leaking under the door, she drops the lighter and the lab
11:37quickly catches on fire.
11:38After a small explosion Cecilia thinks it's over, but unfortunately Tedeschi finds an extinguisher
11:43and puts out the flames before he starts pounding on the door.
11:46A terrified Cecilia keeps getting contractions, which make it hard to move.
11:49When Tedeschi finally breaks down the door, Cecilia forces her body to take the stairs to the
11:54catacombs.
11:55There are flashlights by the entrance so she grabs one to search for a place to hide.
11:58After wandering for a while she can hear Tedeschi coming, so she hides in a random room and
12:02turns off the flashlight.
12:04She stays quiet while Tedeschi walks down the corridor and waits until he's gone before
12:07turning on the flashlight again.
12:09When she turns around, she's horrified to find Gwen's tortured body.
12:13Cecilia gets moving again and manages to find a hole in the wall leading outside.
12:17She starts climbing it only for Tedeschi to pull her back.
12:19Then he holds her down and begins to pray while ripping her dress to expose her belly.
12:23Tedeschi pulls out a scalpel and starts cutting her open, causing her to scream in unbearable
12:27pain.
12:28Cecilia concentrates on reaching into her pocket for the nail and stabs Tedeschi in
12:32the neck, finally killing him.
12:34Afterward a crying Cecilia pushes the body off and finally climbs through the hole to
12:37go outside.
12:38At that moment she collapses and screams as she gives birth to the baby at last.
12:42After cutting the umbilical cord with her teeth, Cecilia becomes terrified of her own
12:46child because it keeps making animalistic noises.
12:49She decides to grab a big rock and crush the baby to death.
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