Le Pupille

It is the days before Christmas, in the middle of the war, at a Catholic boarding school in Italy where the orphaned girls are kept under strict watch. A woman (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) turns up with a large cake and asks the nuns to pray for her boyfriend, who is seeing someone else. Alice Rohrwacher follows Sister Paoletta (Greta Zuccheri Montanari), whose hunger and temper make the gift harder to accept than it first looks.