Robert Bresson's first feature film, made during the war, is set in the closed world of a convent. The roots of Bresson's uncompromising visual and narrative austerity are already in evidence here, lending a calm intelligence to his theme of moral and religious ambiguity. The script, written by France's distinguished playwright and novelist Jean Giraudoux, follows a sophisticated young woman into a convent devoted to the rehabilitation of delinquent girls. At odds with the Mother Superior, she becomes attached to a rebellious girl and is expelled from the order. Her personal regeneration progresses in parallel fashion to the girl's rehabilitation.