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A group of Mexicans sit in the desert, gazing up at the image of their new saint – a seductive woman with a smile like Betty Boop s projected onto an outdoor screen. The woman is Marie Kuraki, recruited to act the part of a sorrowing mother, to help unite the workers on a cooperative farm in a remote village in Mexico.

By becoming a saint, Marie, an unbeliever in search of spiritual peace, reaches the end of a long journey induced by a series of personal tragedies: above all, by the death of her two sons, which happened when one of them was pushing his brother in a wheelchair along a path above a cliff by the sea.

To rebuild her life, Marie leaves her home in Japan to go to a commune in California, under the shy guidance of a guru called Little Father; then on to Mexico, where she falls briefly under the spell of the Dark Virgin of Guadalupe; and finally to a mountain village in the shadow of an Aztec pyramid. There she offers what s left of her life to the local people, who come to venerate her, though her own faith remains as enigmatic as before.