Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers’ worship through song and dance, based on real events.

As the charismatic Mother Ann, Amanda Seyfried shakes free of Hollywood—and levitates—in Mona Fastvold’s devoutly original musical. Chiaroscuro photography and chest-pounding choreography rouse an eighteenth-century Manchester to hammering life in this ecstatic vision of steadfastness and faith.