UNHOLY
A young woman that has been pleasing people her whole life decides to defy human and divine law to look for her long-lost father in the monastic state of Mount Athos, a place where no woman - or female animal - is allowed to set foot on!
Irene has spent her life saying yes to everyone. Until her father - the guy who left them ages ago to become a monk - drops off the map with her life savings. Irene’s solution? She shaves her head, buys a mustache and practices her deepest "blessings, brother." Her destination? Mount Athos: the only place on Earth where women - and female animals - have been banned for over a thousand years. Her boyfriend comes along because he is terrible at saying no. Her estranged sister and her girlfriend invite themselves for the chaos. This drag fellowship begins to wreak havoc in the secluded state that echoes medieval times. Inside the labyrinthine monasteries Irene finds not just a missing dad but the absurd rulebook of patriarchy itself. To get her money and her life back, this people-pleaser must finally become the woman they never saw coming.
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