Great acting throughout. The story unfolds in the 1980s as we learn of Carmen's situation.. deprived of a normal life since her youth, and then finds herself at middle age with no family and no place to go. We see a spiritual guidance in the form of a pigeon, in a few fleeting appearances of Christ himself, and of a long gone lover from her youth. When she impersonates a priest in a confessional, she gives sage advice to the unsuspecting confessors, which is very funny. On her way to establishing a new life, she has a romance with a young guy half her age, has a very dangerous encounter with a sexual predator, and becomes close friends with a most unlikely person. The people in the Catholic country of Malta are very religious, and we see processions in the streets which are common there, along with parades on religious observances of saints' birthdays, etc.
