Burial Rites

Agnes is sent to wait out her final days on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters.
Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids speaking with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes’s spiritual guardian is compelled to try and understand her, as he attempts to salvage her soul. As the execution draws closer, Agnes’s ill-fated tale of longing and betrayal begins to emerge. And with it the family’s terrible realisation that all is not as they assumed…