The story of the first written record of a lesbian relationship. “An…inspired script with ribald humor, flights of poetic beauty and admirable grasp of the history, customs, social milieu, and religious controversies of the time.”—Backstage Vile Affections is the true story of Benedetta Carlini, a seventeen-century abbess, who is charged with being a false mystic. When she begins to upset the church, the government and church fathers come to discover the truth. The truth they uncover shakes their world beyond anything they could have ever imagined.