The Little Hours

Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

• based on novel or book
• middle ages (476-1453)
• convent (nunnery)
• nunhood
• 14th century
• anachronistic
• medieval italy
• lighthearted
• whimsical
• complicated