Follow through a higgledy-piggledy doorway and you'll reach the informal dining area, where an original timber frame has been filled with a period-appropriate mix of horse-hair, lath and lime plaster.

These few scenes tend to derail a more resonant sense of mystery and dread, which opens the movie. The final act feels a tad higgledy-piggledy, never producing a substantial account as to why this is ...

Four-part drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable.