The Secret Scripture
Love is not a sin.
A melancholic period drama about forbidden love and institutional confinement, told through an elderly woman's recovered memoir against a backdrop of Irish religious and political turmoil.
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
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