A sort of ecclesiastical whodunit about a young novitiate nun who seems to have strangled the baby no-one knew she was having, and about the investigative psychiatrist determined to find out the truth. Meg Tilly is the nun, Jane Fonda the shrink, and Anne Bancroft the hip-talking Mother Superior who tries to come between them: all are excellent. The ending is logically the only possible one, but can't help but lend a sense of anti-climax to an otherwise absorbing adult tale that almost entirely escapes its stage origins.

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