Doubt: A Parable

At a Catholic school in the Bronx in the early sixties, Sister Aloysius, the strict and watchful principal, begins to suspect that Father Flynn, the warm and popular parish priest, has formed an improper relationship with the school's first Black pupil. Encouraged by the uneasy observations of Sister James, a young and idealistic teacher, she sets out to force the truth into the open with no proof beyond her own certainty, and draws the boy's mother into the struggle.