Paradise: Faith

A lonely wife has become obsessed with Catholicism (although we find out early on that she was originally married to a now-missing Muslim man). As her loneliness increases, so does her religious fervor, to the point where she spends her vacation time walking through different (and sometimes dangerous) neighborhoods in a quest to re-convert all of Austria to Catholicism. Carrying her statue of the Virgin Mary and endlessly repeating the rosary, she eventually begins to engage in ritualistic physical punishment, such as self-flagellation, purportedly out of her love for Jesus. But a nagging undercurrent of repressed sexuality and transference looms large in her masochistic behavior, and when her Islamic husband returns by surprise, we see the real extent of her "Christian" behavior.