Description: The beautiful and eagerly anticipated film The Book of Laws is a glimpse into the lives of the members of an ascetic community caught up in spiritual deception. Directed by Daniel Lowenstein. Music by Bethany Graves. Starring Steve Hay, Collette Redgrave, Grace Long, Eleni Varon, NIck MacFadzean.
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My mother was depressed. Not the type of depression that meant she walked around the house moping all day long, but the type that meant she didn't walk around the house at all. She did absolutely nothing. All day long. My father hired a woman from the village to look after me, and then when I was old enough, hired me to look after my mother - except I didn't get paid. I used to bathe and dress her. Then I would put her on the kitchen chair where she would sit all day long, staring into space. That was the b
Father Benedict said it was because of Eve. She had eaten the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and consigned us all to this fate. So I blamed Eve. I didn't understand how she could destroy the lives of so many for one single moment in time.
"Can we ever redeem ourselves, Father?" I asked on one of the rare occasions he came to visit.