Year			2004
Original title			La Niña santa
Original lang.			Spanish
Country			Argentina / Italy / Netherlands
Genre			Drama
Rating			PG
Parents			Not recommended for young children, nudity, sexual content
Length			1:46
Director			Lucrecia Martel
Writer			Lucrecia Martel
Starring			María Alche Julieta Zylberberg Mercedes Morán Carlos Belloso Alejandro Urdapilleta Mía Maestro Show more... María Alche Julieta Zylberberg Mercedes Morán Carlos Belloso Alejandro Urdapilleta Mía Maestro Marta Lubos Arturo Goetz Alejo Mango Mónica Villa Leandro Stivelman Manuel Schaller Miriam Diaz Rodolfo Cejas Maria Victoria Mosca Coll

In the town of La Ciénaga, Amalia (María Alche) lives with her attractive, divorced mother, Helena (MERCEDES MORÁN), and her uncle, Freddy (ALEJANDRO URDAPILLETA), in the crumbling, run-down Hotel Termas, which her family owns and runs. After choir rehearsals Amalia and her best friend, Josefina (Julieta Zylberberg), gather in the parish church for further instruction in faith and vocation. What does God want from me? How do I discern between the temptation of the Devil and the calling of God? In between the teachings, the girls gossip and whisper secretively. The lives of the girls and their families intersect with those of a group of visiting orhinolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat specialists) staying at the hotel for a medical convention, including the married, middle-aged Dr. Jano (Carlos Belloso). One day, a crowd of people gather in the street to watch a man play an unusual, exotic instrument: a theremin. Amalia is in the crowd when a man standing behind her presses himself sexually against her. Later, in the hotel, she discovers that this man is Dr. Jano, one of the doctors attending the conference.