An isolated Mennonite community is rocked by scandal in Sarah Polley’s starry, uncompromising drama.

Reading and writing have been strictly forbidden; they’ve never even seen a full map of the world.

But what is forgiveness if it’s not freely given?

WOMEN TALKING

The cast of ‘Women Talking,’ including Jessie Buckley (left center), Claire Foy (top center), and Rooney Mara (right center).Michael Gibson/United Artists Releasing

He’s also wildly, hopelessly in love with Ona.

)Womenis billed in the title card, tellingly, as “An act of female imagination.”