With help from Ana, Ángela decides to fake stigmata to save her convent from economic hardship.

These developments raise the prioress' suspicions and eventually the Holy Office intervenes.

[9] Distributed by Incine,[7] the film was released theatrically at Madrid's Palacio de la Música on 27 September 1985.

[12] Clifford Terry of Chicago Tribune considered that Picazo managed to create a "bizarre, uneven but strangely compelling" film.

[13] Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País assessed that upon translation into images of the literary story the film "suffers from a multitude of defects that gradually become visible", and by the time the film ends, the latter "is difficult to sustain" "due to the accumulation [of those deffects].