Overview

In The Second World War, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while strolling to her job. Barny deals with her little girl and works dealing with examinations and also really feels a great attraction towards her employer Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to reside in a ranch in the countryside and locates that Sabine's sibling has actually been jailed and also sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. The atheist Barny makes a decision to baptize her child to protect her and selects priest Léon Morin to discuss with him styles associated with faith as well as Catholicism and also Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, really feeling an unrequited wish for him.