The Daughter then takes the Bishop's Son to the farm where she keeps her livestock and offers her virginity to him. The Child stumbles across them and prevents the Bishop's Son from taking the Daughter's virginity by using his power to urge a sacred bull to gore the Bishop's Son. He warns the Daughter not to kill the bull, as even he will not be able to protect her from the consequences. The Daughter kills the bull and the townspeople discover her. Sensing opportunity the Bishop says she is unfit to be the Child's mother and takes custody of him. The Bishop auctions off the Child's fluid with many suspecting he is being tortured to produce holy tears and blood which sell at high prices. At night, the Daughter sneaks into the Child's room and suffocates him for abandoning her. The Bishop orders her executed; however, the laws of the town expressly forbid the execution of a virgin. To circumvent this Medici makes a suggestion to the Bishop that the Daughter be raped. The Bishop dispenses holy pardons to members of the Militia allowing them to rape the Daughter. The scene is to take place in a curtained-off canopy bed behind which the actress playing the Daughter acts out screams. However, the actors in the scene actually rape her while Medici and the court, stationed outside, gleefully count off the rapists. After she is raped by 208 men she is sentenced to execution only for it to be discovered that she is already dead from the trauma. The townspeople gather to bury the body of the Child. Fearful to be without his powers they begin to gently strip his relics and eventually viciously dismember him hoping that his body will bring them good fortune. Famine falls once again onto the city of Mâcon. The cast members take a bow and the rest of the court turns around and bows to the camera, acknowledging that they too are performers. Cast Production Julia Ormond and Ralph Fiennes share a violent and passionate scene which Ormond remembers shooting in a church hall while Peter Greenaway ate wine gums. "It was the most surreal experience because every now and then you'd hear 'rustle rustle munch munch'. Being naked in front of people who were clothed bothered me so much I didn't know if I would break out in hives... After a while you get