In 1919 South America, a landowner's wife is desperate for a child of her own, having suffered through multiple miscarriages. She finds hope, however, in a seemingly outlandish plan: She'll pray to a mythical deity to resurrect her stillborn son. The plan works, but with the child comes something else, something evil.。一个青年牧师在日记中向上帝袒露心声。年轻的牧师初到村庄,感受到这里的寒冷和孤苦,他怀着一腔热忱,希望用自己的力量教化众生,令人们更加虔诚,但和村人接触之下他才发现,他们浅薄、功利,有的村民连妻子葬礼都不肯花钱,大多数人根本不关心自己的灵魂是否被拯救,反倒质疑他的献身精神。唯有一位伯爵夫人,因为难以纾解丧子之痛,找来牧师长谈,从而得到开解。但在村子的大环境下,他仍时时感到徒劳无功,他自己的迷茫和痛苦连上帝都解救不了。长期抑郁之下,牧师渐渐吃不下东西,最后发现自己得了胃癌,终于孤独地死去。。