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Idealistic young teacher takes a post in a small, backwoods town and dedicates her life to schooling the village's children.
Acting
María Rivas commits to sainthood with unsettling conviction.
Production
Cardona's backlot village somehow feels genuinely remote.

Director
René Cardona
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