Beyond The Hills

Alina (Cristina Flutur) arrives to an isolated Orthodox monastery in Romania to visit her friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan), one of the nuns in training. As children, the two young women lived together in an orphanage where the tough, short-tempered Alina served as a protector for her more delicate friend. Now, Alina wants Voichita to leave her cloistered life and run away to Germany with her. But Voichita is determined to become a nun and is disinclined to go. In an attempt to win her affection back, Alina challenges the priest. The people of the monastery suspect that she is possessed by the Evil One and they perform an exorcism on her that leads to her death.