Magnificat plot
Five stories set during Easter week in the Italian province of Emilia, in the Middle Ages. The central characters are in a sacred place, where miracles take place. The protagonists are a pregnant concubine who travels with a maidservant and hopes to give birth to a son of the king, a terminally ill man who wants to die in a sacred place, a fourteen-year-old girl who wishes to become a novice and two executioners who are sentenced to death every three months. to carry out. Everyone is desperately waiting for a sign from heaven that never comes.