In 16th-century France, a teenage girl faces danger as her mother is accused of witchcraft amid persecution and injustice.
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In 16th-century France, a teenage girl faces danger as her mother is accused of witchcraft amid persecution and injustice.
After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.
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Priest makes unwanted sexual advances on mother; brother-in-law seeks her land and favors
Mother tortured while daughter watches; graphic accounts of witch-hunt imprisonment and execution
No profanity depicted
No substance use depicted
No LGBTQ+ representation depicted
Priest and judge drive witch trials; clergy involved in persecution and coercion
No fantasy magic depicted
Central plot involves witchcraft accusations, trials, and claims of spells
Explores systemic injustice, greed, and oppression of independent women
Daughter provides mother with suicide potion while imprisoned
Torture, sexual coercion, imprisonment, and systemic cruelty against women depicted in detail
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