In Heresy, the Forest Isn’t the Most Dangerous Thing in the Village

Somebody always decides what counts as heresy. In Didier Konings’ Heresy, originally released in the Netherlands as Witte Wieven, that somebody is nearly always a man. Frieda lives in a harsh medieval Dutch religious community where a woman’s value is measured by the children she gives her husband. She hasn’t given him any. So her body has become everyone’s business.