A set of nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate within your community is hostile as well as the nuns are housed in a unusual older palace. Their focus changes, although they work to set up a school and a hospital. Sister Ruth falls to get a government worker, Mr. Dean, also begins to wonder her vow of celibacy. Since Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her memories of love.