The strength of one woman's faith takes her to strange & dangerous places in this drama from acclaimed French filmmaker Bruno Dumont Celine (Julie Sokolowski) the daughter of a wealthy & respected family is a 20-year-old student of theology whose passion for Christianity is so strong some find it unnerving Celine has been studying at a convent but her single-minded devotion leads the mother superior to ask Celine to leave & go out into the world As Celine strives to find herself in a world that seems to have lost its moral compass she meets Yassine (Yassine Salime) a Muslim teenager who lives in the city Yassine is quite taken with Celine & they strike up a friendship but while she warily hangs out with his friends & goes to nightclubs with him she stubbornly denies him physical affection insisting her spiritual path is more important to her than sex Yassine introduces Celine to his brother Nassir (Karl Sarafidis) a firmly committed Muslim & in him Celine finds a kindred spirit -- despite the differences in their faiths their belief is equally powerful & they share the opinion that they live in a world that has cut itself off from God When Nassir makes a pilgrimage to the Middle East Celine joins him leading her into a strange maze of violence & fear