A Virgin Named Mary

A second coming This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin in the north of Italy overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory or less legal ways to survive Young Maria Cinzia De Carolis can predict the future during her epileptic seizures or at least thats what everyone believes and her mother Clelia Matania sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors after inducing her trance with electricity One night the shock is too strong and Maria seems to die when she wakes up she is found pregnant And being a honest unmarried girl from the south she is obviously still virgin Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest Turi Ferro everyone including her believes in the miracle and prepares for a second coming in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press and by the official church