As the sun slowly rises on a nearly wordless family breakfast, it quickly becomes clear that the marital bond has been rent by a love not only forbidden but nearly unspeakable within their tightly ordered Mennonite religious community in rural Mexico. Can it be that this irresistible love is an Eden—a gift both wholesome and divinely tendered to its earnest lovers—or no more than a diabolical temptation issuing from a darker source? As triangular tensions mount steadily toward a catharsis unlike any other in film, Silent Light attains to a timeless, transcendent spirituality, imbued with the magical powers of wisdom and compassion