Small Body

Agata (Celeste Cescutti) is a young peasant woman in early-1900s Italy whose baby is born without breath, and she carries the small body with her toward a mountain sanctuary. The belief is that the child can be revived there for a moment, long enough to be baptized, and Laura Samani sends her north with Lince (Ondina Quadri), a rough stranger who agrees to guide her. Under all of it sits the old fear that a child who dies unbaptized is shut out of Heaven.