In this timeless parable from the Bronx of the 60s in a convent school of the Catholic Church is about faith, distrust, rumors to the accusation of the priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) by the Rector (Meryll Streep). Grandios told and the infighting in matters of faith and false suppositions and the madness of inhumanity aufzeigend, is a tip for friends of Method actings and quiet cinemas.