Within the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, “The Wonder” goes to a tiny village to watch what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, {that a} lady has survived without meals for months. Vacationers flock to see 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell, and a journalist has come to cowl the feeling as two strangers rework one another’s lives in a narrative of affection pitted in opposition to evil.