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The inhabitants of this village live under the domination of the defrocked priest
Adolphe Éloi, whom everyone calls "the Holy Father". The latter and his companion Berthe Granjeux, "the Holy Mother", try to subdue the young girl who is truly the only one who does not accept their tyranny. They try to
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make her feel guilty, and it is out of revolt that the teenager imposes herself and opposes them with increasingly perverse tendencies.
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poster for its supposed outrageous nature. The ban on the poster was not appealed.
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