A young agoraphobic woman is tormented by malevolent visions that begin to bleed into reality.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the bishop decided to launch an investigation and asked the chancellor of the diocese to find out how, why and with what complicity such a deception was possible.

由维吉妮·索沃（Virginie Sauveur）和尼古拉·西尔霍尔（Nicolas Silhol）根据安妮 - 伊莎贝尔·拉卡萨涅（Anne - Isabelle Lacassagne）的小说《黑衣女人》（Des femmes en noir）进行了大致改编。故事始于一位老牧师去世，其教区负责人发现这位牧师实际上是女性。多年来，她一直履行着神职，却无人察觉。主教大为震惊，决定展开调查并……

Live performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat, BWV 243 from Herbert von Karajan's New Year's Eve concert in 1984.