Set in the middle of the twentieth century in a mountainous Cypriot village, Census follows the pregnancy of cancer patient Maria. She conceives after a night with the angelically handsome Michael, visiting from Patmos, the island of John s Revelation. The gestation culminates in the nativity of an invisible Christ in a Nicosia clinic. Though incorporeal, scentless and colourless, the life-giving force that is liberated from Maria s womb, brings about premature efflorescence and a diffusion of aromas across the clinic s flower pots. Akin to healing energy, it begins curing the spiritual and...