MEXICO · 1958
Miércoles de ceniza/Ash Wednesday
Synopsis
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
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religious trauma · sex work · Mexican history · Cristero Uprising · redemption
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