The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a Young Postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. In 1906, a beautiful seventeen year old Postulant enters the convent of the sisters of the cr...The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a Young Postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. In 1906, a beautiful seventeen year old Postulant enters the convent of the sisters of the crucifixion in upstate New York. When she begins to bleed from her hands, feet, and side, the entire community is thrown into turmoil.