Movie Story : In a village governed by ancient custom, the festival of the Maremma Goddess is observed with both devotion and dread. Every twelve years a male bull is offered to the deity, but each ceremony seems to bring misfortune upon the people, and the elders' best efforts have not been enough to stop it. To end the pattern, they issue a new decree: any household whose bull sires a male calf within 100 days must surrender the calf to the goddess. As the deadline draws near, the village's future rests on whether its people can hold firm to this resolve.