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.

• Granada Television
• Fiona Shaw
• Barbara Leigh-Hunt
• Robert Addie
• Simon Cowell-Parker
• Katy Durham-Matthews
• Richard Garnett
• Joanne Good
• Randal Herley