The Woman Who Left

The Woman Who Left

Guilt, God and gloomy revenge.

2016229 min6.9 / 10

A slow, melancholic meditation on wrongful imprisonment, betrayal, and the moral weight of revenge, told with austere restraint.

After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her — her ruling class ex-lover.

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