The heroine of Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher's feature debut is pretty, fair-haired 13-year-old Marta, who returns with her mother and older sister from 10 years in prosperous, clean, well-lighted Switzerland to impoverished, benighted Calabria in the calloused toe of her native Italy. Mama thinks a confirmation class will help her acclimatise. But Marta's encounters with a primitive local church and a disillusioned priest bent on finding a better parish serve only to make her isolation worse. There are moments that suggest the director might do something better next time.