S1 • E1
Diane is about to get married but her feelings for her intended clash with her strong faith. She shocks her family by deciding to enter the Santo Spirito convent as a postulant.
S1 • E2
New to the school and coming from a broken home, Frances struggles to find friends and a place in the stratified world of boarding school.
S1 • E3
Vatican II causes turmoil in the Order with its instructions for change and simplification within the Church; a lay teacher arrives at the convent.
S1 • E4
Rosemary, a student at the convent school, struggles with her own awakening independence and education about her sexuality, from which she has been sheltered.
S1 • E5
Sister Paul is a born teacher who joined the convent at 18 and is happy in her vocation. At 24 she goes home to attend a family wedding and meets up with radical priest Jack Delahunty, who changes her life.
S1 • E6
Agnes, in charge while Mother Ambrose is in Rome, asks Catherine to teach the official line against contraception, and Catherine begins to find the compromises she is forced to make as a nun almost overwhelming.
Sister Agnes
Mother Ambrose
Sister Catherine
Sister Paul
Sister Clare
Sister Polycarp
Sister Pierre
Sister Innocent
Sister Francine
Frances Heffernan