Father Rivard is on trail for murder of a nun. He doubts his faith, his God, his very sanity, but never his innocence. Milan Stitt's 1975 potboiler based on a true murder at the turn of the last century follows the trial and the turmoil of forbidden love, blind doctrine and abandoned hope. A Catholic priest and nun fall in love tearing their world apart. The two disappear, years pass and the priest is arrested and returned to stand trial for the nun's murder.