Romance, TV Movie | 02 October 1983

Fiona Shaw, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Robert Addie

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.